Moving to Utah!

I just thought that I would tell everyone that Eric and I are moving to Utah to live with Mom and Dad! We are planning on being there until Eric goes to boot camp at the end of August. We are so excited to see everyone and to be able to spend more time with the Downwards! Estimated day of arrival: July 2nd!

This & That

We just got back from our vacation to Lake Powell and thought I would share a few stories. We got there Wednesday afternoon and it was quite windy and looked like rain. But so far the rain hadn't started. By that evening we were stuck inside the houseboat in what you could call torrential rain. However, it only felt like that inside the houseboat because we happened to be parked right underneath a waterfall! I've been to Lake Powell in heavy rainstorms before but we've always been lucky enough to have the waterfalls several feet from our boat. It was a long night for everyone. By the next afternoon, the waterfall finally stopped (even though the rain had stopped that morning). We had a few beautiful days after that. Mike got to enjoy some skiing and wakeboarding and had the best 2 crashes of the trip. I missed the second one but I heard he did some awesome twists (horizontal to the water?) when doing the slolom (sp?) ski. The first one wasn't so much a crash but pretty cool still. He was trying to get up on the slolom ski and somehow both he and the ski were pulled under water and then his ski came shooting up and out like a torpedo while he stayed under for a few more seconds. My dad has been pulling skiiers for pretty much his whole life and he said he's NEVER seen anything like that before. It was kind of funny.

Ryan had a blast on the trip. His two favortie activities (besides playing with cousins) were fishing and fishing. j/k They were fishing and throwing rocks in the water. We went to the doctor the morning we left and luckily he did not have to wear his special glove for the trip! (see shutterfly pictures) His hand had healed enough that we didn't have to really worry about it and it is looking better everyday. What a relief! He also enjoyed a couple of rides on the banana boat, except he fell asleep the first time so I guess he didn't really enjoy that one. :-)

I am pretty sure he is going to have a lot of fun with his Flinders cousins this summer and we are looking forward to that. It's been fun to see him with older and younger cousins. He really liked Dustin when he was here and tried to share his fishy crackers with him.

Oh yes, one more thing. We won't have our official ultrasound until next week, but the doctor thinks it's an 85% chance we are having a girl. I'm still surprised and getting used to the idea (since I was expecting a boy) but both Mike and I saw the same thing the doctor was looking at and it surely didn't look like a boy!