You know you have done summer sales for a long time when....

You can't count on both hands how many times you have moved

You have packing a Honda Civic with everything you will need for 5 months down to a science

You have driven more than 24 hours straight

You eat off Wal-Mart's plastic summer dishes half the year

You don't have any friends to recruit anymore because all your friends now do summer sales

When referring to a "bagel" it has nothing to do with the food

At the end of the summer you wonder how the heck you are going to get everything home

You only sleep in your own bed half the year

You get really excited when you don't have "the scratchy couch" for the summer

When you talk to someone you don't speak with on a regular basis, the first question they ask you is "what state are you in right now"

Saturday's are the longest day of the week

You refer to years by where you were that summer, not the actual number

You have changed your mailing address more times in 5 years than most people do in a life time

Every summer you say it's your last, yet in April your packing up the car to go sell again

At the end of the summer you never want to see your husband in khaki shorts and knocking shirt ever again

**The summer is over and we are done selling in Austin, I fly out on Saturday and Brennen left this morning with our loaded down civic... wearing his khaki shorts and knocking shirt... I tried to tell him he could wear something else!**

Girlfriends

{Heidi, Calene, Keisha, Noelle, Kat, Jenna, Me, & Krista}

I have been so lucky this summer to have a great group of girlfriends. We have had so much fun doing things with the kids during the day and relaxing by watching shows together every night. I haven't had an office with lots of wives in a few summers so it has defiantly made a difference to have people to hang out with. The guys are going to sell in Louisiana so the girls are going their own ways in the coming week. I am going to miss these girls, but hopefully we can all reunite for the SYTYCD tour in November!

Quarter Dive

One of the highlights of the summer is the annual quarter dive! $1000 in quarters is thrown into the pool and based on how many accounts they sell, the quality of the sale, etc. determines at what point the guys get to jump in the pool to dive for quarters. Just imagine 20 guys swimming around in a 6x6 ft area searching for quarters on the bottom of the pool!

The guys waiting for the fun to begin... check out those killer tan lines!

After it was over Avalynn wanted to join in the fun

Counting dad's winnings, he came out with $40!

4th of July

{photo by Noelle}

We had a really fun 4th of July this year due to the fact that Brennen didn't have to work! We went to the Round Rock parade with all of our friends from APX in the afternoon (not sure why they do a parade in the middle of the day in TEXAS!), and then had a BBQ at the park with the APX office. I have been wanting to go to a 4th of July parade for so long and was so excited we were finally able to go. It wasn't anything compared to the 4th of July parade in Provo, but it will hold me over until we can be in Provo for the 4th one year. We stayed at the park until dark so we could see the fireworks there. Avalynn was such a good girl, even though she was exhausted because she won't sleep anywhere but her bed!

{pictures above by Noelle}

Eclipse Premier

I got talked into going to see Eclipse at midnight at the last minuet and was so glad the girls got me to go! It was actually pretty good, and I stayed awake the WHOLE time! If you know me and movies that is huge! It was fun to go out with the wives and share in some good fun.

Summer Time

Miss Avalynn is loving being able to go outside and enjoy the sun!

Good Friends

I was able to spend a couple days with two of my bestest friends here in Austin last week. Brittany was in town for her boyfriend's business trip and Melissa, who happens to be Brittany's cousin, lives in Dallas and decided to drive down for the day to hang out. It was so good to see both of them! We had so much fun eating, shopping, and catching up.

Britt, Melissa, Me

Brittany and Dustin

A little side note- I don't know how I got so lucky to have such a good baby! Avalynn was seriously an angel the whole day and didn't make a peep. We left the house about noon and didn't get back until 11:00pm and she was totally content the whole day just hanging out in her stroller, chillin with the girls!

Pit Stop in St. George

My dad was coming to Rexburg to bring my sister Cami back to St. George for the summer, so I decided that Avalynn and I would tag along and make a stop there before we flew to Austin. We said good-bye to Brennen as he would be making the 28 hour drive, while we would just do a short 8 hour drive and then catch a plane! It was so fun to be able to spend time with my family before we left for the summer.

We went straight from driving down there to Uncle Devin's soccer game

Avie had to sport her school colors! Which helped cause Devin's team won and he scored 2 goals!

Great-Grandpa Despain was in town for the day and stopped by to see us

She got her first car!

Had cereal for the first time

and we got to enjoy being outside in the sun

Mimi drove us to Vegas to catch our flight

Avalynn was a little angel on the plane. She only fussed for about 5 min before we landed and slept a lot of the way.

Now we are in Austin! We are loving it so far and will post more about it soon!

Texas

We made it to TX! The last 2 weeks have been CRAZY to say the least. Once I get everything unpack and settled I will update on what we have been up to!