Suns Out, Kinda

School's out, and the first week of summer is in full swing. We're having lots of rainy days, which is nice because the wildfires haven't started yet, hehe. Things are green and lovely for the time being. 

I woke Ava up today at around 12:45 pm, and she made herself and Aani pancakes for breakfast/lunch. She starts tennis in the mornings for all of June, so we won't be making a habit of sleeping all day, now will we? 

She had her last band concert of the year, what a cutie.

Aani's working at Mickey D's and thinks it's just great. She has a lot of friends who turn their noses up at working there, but Aani says it's a pretty easy job and they pay well. They're flexible with hours and time off, so it's a pretty nice li'l gig if you ask us. Plus they feed her every shift. She's become a Hot n' Spicy fan and says she isn't sick of the food yet. She's working her way through the Gilmore Girls series at the moment when she's not working.

Addie still has MTECH every morning at 7:30 until she finishes her program, so that's pretty sad. She's head life guard at the outdoor pool, so she's working a lot and gets to be the head honcho this year. She graduated from high school and is not at all sad about that. She makes no bake cookies on the regular, and will pack herself cute lunches for work. She bought Anders' old car officially yesterday, so she's got a loan and is just a real big kid. 

Seminary graduation with friends Lia and Kibby (McKinley).

Anders is hanging in there. He's got a job that is quite flexible which is good for him right now. He bought a new to him car that will hopefully give him a good reason to get up and go to work and make the moneys. His girlfriend left on her mission last week, and they're both real sad. We shall see how this goes. The last 3 months have been extremely difficult for him and for us, and we're all pretty spent emotionally. We've been doing all we can to help him, and it feels like we've been up to our armpits in sludge while trying to move forward. No bueno.

Having said that, we have some fun and exciting things on the horizon.

First of all, we're building a house that we won't live in! We've wanted to get into real estate for our entire marriage and are finally at a point that we can. After talking with some people to learn about our options, we learned about this house that can be rented as a duplex. The top 2 floors will have 4 bedrooms + a loft, which is great for a family. We will finish the basement ourselves to save money and for video content, and rent it as a 2 bedroom apartment. The basement will have a separate entrance and parking on the side of the house. We're pretty excited and have had fun choosing everything. 

It will look very similar to this, except with a green front door, and a different garage door. Same floor plan. We were pretty thrilled when we learned we could do board and batten for no extra charge. Wahoo! 

I think I enjoyed picking all of this out a little too much. We tried to stay reasonable with cost, but also upgrade the things that will need to be more durable as a rental. We'll see how it all goes! I know we're in for an adventure and we hope to do more of this eventually. 

They started digging our hole! 

The other fun thing we have coming up is a trip to Kauai in August. We found a great deal on airfare and pounced. The more research I do about it, the more excited I am. I think it'll be dreamy! In July we have the Rasmusson family reunion at Bear Lake which should be a lot of fun as well. 

Nils went to Florida for a few days to work on a project with some other DIY YouTubers. They worked hard and sweated a lot and got to know each other better.

While he was gone, I took the girls out for "Super Cool Fun Time with Mom":

It was super cool and such a fun time, obviously! 

I pushed Addie around Target and we just piled things on top of her. I had to go the bathroom, so I parked her here. Then some lady came up to her and told her she liked her dinosaur shirt. See? Super cool fun times! 

Things that have made me LOL: 

I think Instagram has me figured out- I can waste more time on there than ever before, and I laugh and I laugh.

This is courtesy of my friend Ruth. We were texting with our other friends Kat and Cheri about how to get out of church callings, and she sent this. If you're scared you're going to be made camp director, it's time to put on your jam pants. Maybe you had to be there, and maybe you have to know Ruth, but I was dying.

Okay, I think that's all I have for now. Thanks for reading, now get yourself a snackaroo.