July 2014

July was another fun month with a lot of visits from family. Katie and Brad came out to visit for the week of July 4th, and Johanna and her family came to visit again for our niece, Sharon's, graduation party. It was fun to visit with everyone and the kids love to see their cousins.

 

This is a typical evening in our house. Jared searches the internet, some of us watch TV, and others "watch TV" :)

Lucy the photographer always leaves such gems on my phone. Her skills are improving. She even took the picture of the donkey at the zoo!

 

 Jared's aunt asked everyone to send a picture of themselves doing a "thumbs up" for her son Ethan who is serving a mission in Virginia (he was actually serving in Virginia Beach when we were there so we saw him at church!). So we took some pictures while we were at the park playing.  I am not sure exactly why she needed "thumbs up" but they are fun pictures either way :)

This kid is so stinking cute!

When the cousins were back in town for the graduation party the kids got to play with some sparklers we had laying around. I think this picture just looks so cool :)

The baptist church down the road from us always has a summer neighborhood party. They even had pony rides! Timothy was nervous, but wanted to ride the pony and successfully did NOT cry this time around :) Lucy was, as usual, the queen cowgirl. She just LOVES pony rides.

My dad took all of us bowling, with the help of me and Johanna, of course. Although it was crazy with two toddlers who kept wanting to run away and with Samuel needing held now and then, it was fun to go. Rachel came with her girls, too, and it was just fun that we all got to go do something together.

 

Timmy insisted on carrying the ball himself. He is so determined to be a big boy and do everything his sister does lately.

This is the picture I got at work the other day. Timothy got a toilet seat for his birthday with Cars on it (to encourage him to at least THINK about the potty). He really was excited to buy it, but I don't think he gets it quite yet :) He decided to put the pad on his head and then he got it stuck and couldn't get it off. I almost died laughing in the middle of work. What a gem :)