July Update!

For our July update, we have been enjoying several different activities. We celebrated little Summer’s first birthday. She is ADORABLE!!

Then the girls and I have been enjoying some of the free summer stuff going on. We are all signed up for the summer reading program with our local library. Plus we have been enjoying free lunches either at the park close to us or the middle school by us. And we even made it to one of the free movies they had, “The Bee Movie.” On the fourth we all went fishing in the little fishing boat at Liberty Lake. We caught a ton of little fish. The girls caught so many they lost track. They loved getting them out long enough to see and touch once and then we sent them back to get lots bigger.

Then, that night we had a yummy BBQ with watermelon, yum, and finally we headed to the fireworks.

The girls loved them. Our favorite part was the finale!!


This month the girls took swimming lessons. They loved every minute of their lessons and are now asking me when they get to take them again. We are glad that they learned a few basics.

(The first picture is one of their favorite things they did....called "chop, chop, timber" the other two are them holding on during lessons.)

We also celebrated Sam’s birthday on the 11th. It is a big one for him. He is the BIG 30!!!

We had a family party for him and a little party with some friends from our ward.Both parties turned out really great, thanks to all who came and made it so fun.

These two pictures are from our friend party. We played water balloon volleyball. It was lots of fun!! We are so glad that we have our Sambo. He is so good to us. He truly works so hard at being the best husband and father that he could possibly be. And HE IS the best in the world!! We love you Daddy, hope you had a great birthday!

This last weekend we went on a little family camping trip with Sam’s family. We went to Central Ferry State Park. Yes I went camping at 7 ½ months pregnant.

And it was actually pretty good. The first night was actually one of the worst nights we have had with our kids...ever. I think that was the night that we got the least amount of sleep, one because Hailey had an atrocious cough that kept her and the rest of us awake for about 5 hours and two when we weren’t worrying about her we felt like we were in a wind tunnel because there was so much wind and our tent was like a kite flapping around in the breeze. Thankfully the next night was much better. Hardly any wind and a lot less coughing which aloud us to get more sleep. During the day we had fun even with all the wind that continued on. We spent time by the water beach combing and swimming,

there was the Polar Bear Dip which was the girls favorite part (the polar bear dip consisted of jumping in the River first thing in the morning),

and there was the obstacle course,

earning their boondoggles for the Polar Bear Dip and the obstacle course,
and just having quality time together with cousies.

This is Hailey with her rainbow stick, which she found down at the river.

Overall there was a lot of fun had by all. Thanks to all the family for some more wonderful camping memories.

On Sunday we celebrated Grandma Kathie's. We love her and are so glad she lives close enough to us to spoil.

Happy Birthday Grammy!!