July Happenings

July was a busy month for us!  My parents came home from their mission, all of my siblings came into town, two of my sisters stayed at our house throughout the month (not at the same time), 4th of July, fireworks, the rodeo, Wyatt's birthday, Logan's baby blessing, family reunion, non stop fun!  I'm not sure where to start, I may just post a bunch of pictures with some descriptions underneath.

Sammy and Mary worked together to do a "Welcome Home" chalk art for Gram and Grandpa

Sarah was sweet enough and patient enough to let the kids help make cookies

My kiddos in their 4th of July attire

Evanston city does a super fun Independence Day Festival every year.  It has become our tradition to go every year and the kids have so much fun!  This was one of my favorite memories of the whole day.  Avery and Mary wanted to do this game where they stand on these pedestals and try to knock each other off.  It was hilarious to watch them try this because they could barely hold the bars up and reach far enough to hit each other.  In the end, Avery decided to throw her stick at Mary.  It worked!  Mary wasn't amused.

Ethan really wanted to try this obstacle course, I wasn't sure he would be able to climb to the top, but he did it!

The biggest highlight of the day for the girls was getting to ride in the paddle boat with their Dad!

Can you guess who did most of the work with peddling?

Louis' sisters Kami and Tif brought Avery, Mary, and Ethan to the rodeo here in Evanston.  

They had such a good time!  

Fireworks at Weber State with John and Courtney and Sarah and her girls

My girls have quite the knack for coming up with extravagant ideas.  In July they made big plans to open a bakery.  They named their bakery Cookies and Creamies Bakery.  We made giant chocolate chip cookies, muffins, and pie.  We were hosting dinner for some of my family that night and for dessert the girls opened the bakery.  I brought out the money I have for the girls' allowance and had people pay with that.  The girls were absolutely thrilled that people came to their bakery!

It was so much fun having Jessica stay with us, the kids all loved her!

While everyone was here my niece Madison was able to go through the temple.  

It was nice being able to be in the temple with a lot of my family.

We did a little weekend reunion with my family.  Louis always has to break out the hammocks!

We played a few minute to win it type games, this one I believe is called the elephant walk.

You put an orange down one leg of panty hose, put the top of the panty hose on your head and swing your head back and forth to knock over 6 water bottles.

This one is cookie face.  

You put an oreo on your forehead and use your face muscles to move it to your mouth!

We did a water fight to end the night

toe touch competition

Don's birthday was the next week so we surprised him with cake and a pinata

The last Sunday in July was my parent's mission report as well as Logan's baby blessing.

It was the most family we have had for a blessing I would say.

Big Phill and Lil' Phill (and Louis)

We're missing one person, so this is almost everyone from the blessing circle.

Clearly we had a busy busy month!  After everything from that month we were ready to get back to our regular schedule and routine and get ready for school to start at the end of August!  I am grateful for all of the memories that were made in July, hopefully they are ones that are remembered by my kids for years to come.