WOW Aug. is almost over already! I don't have any idea where it went, we have had a busy time of course......we have now officially gotten our final inspection on our Garage!!!! YEAH!!!
We also had the 1st annual Grove Family Reunion on the 18th
(direct descendants of Arvin & Elaine) I think there were only 14 that didn't come! Total of 97 there!! Big Family :)

Grandma Grove with her 3 youngest Great-Grand kids
Knute (standing) Brady(Left) and Reed(Right)


All of us in attendance!


family Photo time! :)


"Look Mommy, I got you a flower! "


Just the Grove Kids! all 15 of us.


Then on the 19th we had Baptism for Reed with more family spending that special day with us (Thank you all for coming!)


Nate,Jamie,Reed and 2 of his Sponsors
Maddie Anfinson and Ruthie Grove


His other 2 sponsors, Jerrod and Lindsey Johnson


My new little Big Man :)



I am also back to work now ! :( oh well all good thing must come to an end!
No its good to be back and to be busy! I guess that people missed me, so that's good .

So......Summer is flying by! We have had a non-stop one! to say the least:)
With the Family,the Garage, Baseball (my brother) there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day!
Reed is growing like a weed!he is just about 8 weeks now and I just weighed him and he is 13lbs. now!!!!! WOW! So I don't think he is starving! :)
Gavin is also growing so fast! He is 3 years old now (going on 20 he thinks!)
he finally broke the 30lb. plane!!! HOORAY!!!! 30 and 1/2lbs. Good job Gavin:)
Nate and I are also growing but I guess it's not as cute for us! :)Hehehe

Gavin is such a Proud Big Brother! it is so cute and he is usually a good helper also, which has been very nice to have!

We just had our final electrical inspection for our garage this morning, and passed !! YES!! We will be painting in the down stairs tonight (the upstairs is pretty much done!) I am so excited ! That means we can start moving stuff into the garage from the old one this weekend! and then we can start tearing down the old garage so we can paint our house!! its going to be like a domino effect now, it seems like everything has been hinging on the garage getting done! and it seem like it has taken FOREVER!!! a good lesson in Patience (for me!)

Well our Summer has been very busy to say the least!
with Baseball Games, remodeling, the Garage (building and finishing) , the new addition to our Family....Reed and keeping up with Gavin who never STOP'S !!!
I'm glad i'm on Maturnity leave till the middle of Aug. :)
Reed is kinda starting to be a little Colicky now starting at about 10:00 and lasting till about 12:00-1:00-2:00 :( but I can say that you get pretty resourceful in times like that :) I find that his lungs will be very developed!!!!

My brother Noah is continuing with the baseball thing this summer, playing Legion ball and also signing with the Cannon Bears an amature baseball team that will help him in his continuing desire to learn and better himself in his love for baseball !!! it has kept us busy watching we dont really know what to do if there is no game (which has only happened a couple of times!) we just look at eachother like "now what?" :)


well enough for now I have a crying baby on my hands :) a mommy's job is never done!!!!! Jamie

Things have been going better.....at first he had his day's and night's mixed up,
he wanted to sleep all day and be up pretty much all night :(
but we have been working on that and he is starting to be up more during the day and he gets up 1 time at about 2:30-3:00 in the morning to eat and then goes back to sleep :) so we are getting there!

Reed Nathanael Sommer~

Born June 5th at 1:11 pm

weighing 8lbs 8.7oz

20 inches long

Welcomed home by his big Brother Gavin who Loves him very very much :)