Zoo, Grave, and Our New Pool!

We were able to visit Hogle Zoo for Will's very first time with all of Ryan's family a few Saturdays ago. I claim that it was my first time as well, but my mom says I have been there and was just too little to remember. This summer there were lots of new babies born at the zoo, including the baby elephant (pictured) and baby giraffe!

We decided to get started on finishing our basement a few weeks ago, but since lots of neighbors have had flooding issues we decided to get an estimate of what waterproofing we would need to do before finishing to be safe. We really thought we were ok, but when they drilled the concrete out around our footings this is what they found (picture on right). Basically, we are sitting on our very own underground pool, about 9 inches away from our basement floor! Fun, right? We never even knew our homebuilder was so generous to include a pool in our home and not even charge us for it.

The picture on the left shows Ry digging up our yard to bury the pipe for the french drain/sump pump system we had to put in to clear out the river under the basement. Now we have a lovely little pipe drilled into our curb that drains all the water from under our house into the street.

Since we haven't been to Vegas in over a year now, I decided that a trip was long overdue. We were able to go a few weekends ago and visit one of my very best friends, Liz, and her family, my grandparents, and my father's grave. We stayed with Liz and Jes, and they are always so sweet and hospitable when we come. We were also able to go to lunch with Jenny, Emily, Rebecca, and Alexis. Unfortunately I only got pictures at the cemetery and not of anything else the whole weekend! Will loved watching the ducks in the pond at the cemetery so much that he almost jumped right in to catch them. He loves ducks, which is fun because I have loved ducks ever since my dad used to call me "Baby Duck".