Brown Family Update

I can't believe that the winds of change are upon our door once again as the summer season comes to an end. I still welcome the month of August with child-like anticipation...anticipation of another birthday, anticipation of school commencing, and of that crisp autumn air just around the corner.

It makes it the perfect time to re-cap the summer of 2010 for the Brown's!

The Brown family started off June with a big bang and participated in the Relay for Life Cancer fundrasier at Juan Diego Catholic Center, where we walked for 24hrs straight, in the very cold rain, to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Paul helped set up the "camp site" and the boys helped decorate the illuminary bags in honor of my mother, Paul's mother, my sister Katina, aunt Nina, aunt Susie, and my dear friend Amy O'Grady. It was a very powerful event.

In June, we were also fortunate enough to attended a ReAL soccer game with full "red carpet" treatment, including dinner and drinks with the players, as well as, going out to our cushy seats via the player's hallway! All courtesy of Paul's sister Patti. She happens to be ReAl's PR director--lucky us. The boys kept telling me how they could get use to the VIP status. . We also said good-bye to Paul's nephew, Sean and his family, who were transfered to Austin TX for work--Paul will definitely miss his only BYU croonie in Ute country.

In July, we celebrated the 4th with a great BBQ, parade, and water fight at a friend's house and then headed off to the mountains and spent a couple of days fishing and lounging at Smith and Morehouse with the same bunch. We kept celebrating throughout the month with dinner parties, BBQs, concerts and spending time outdoors. Austin learned the meaning of working while everyone else had fun...he's a cabana boy at Cowabunga so how bad could it really be?...Kohnor had too much fun and time to get into plenty of mischeive. And as for Jack, well he worked on his tan.

We continued on the first several weeks of August celebrating the beautiful weather with family and friends, and trying to get every bit of summer in. But alas, here we are...school started the last week of August bringing with it books and pencils, due dates and homework....and another birthday... welcoming the crisper autumn air awaiting in the wings.

~Giovanna