Tuesday, July 9, 2013

How is it that July is almost halfway over??? The next 7 weeks are going to be busy. Our Jason is marrying his beautiful Vanessa and Gil and I have been asked to be in the wedding and we couldn't be happier for these two. The Monday before the wedding our boy starts kindergarten!!!! Mommy's heart is not ready for this in the slightest.

Speaking of our boy. Here he is having fun at Grammy's:



The family clown doing what she does best

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This boy is finally making an effort to develop his gross motor skills. He *finally* started crawling a few weeks ago and is crawling more than army crawling now.

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He's also a good sport when I use him for entertainment



Our neighbor gifted us with some venison sausage a few weeks ago. He actually killed this deer himself. I used it for biscuits and gravy. It was good.

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My Elise got a much needed hair cut. It hurt to watch her do this but her hair was ridiculously uneven and it looks so much more tame now. She did great during the process and absolutely loved that they put a ribbon in her hair when she was done. She's getting too big!

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Speaking of getting big, my Vivinana is growing way too quickly as well.

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Ryan has developed a love for Shipley Do-Nuts

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Sword fight with his Auntie Esther



July 4th was spent with our family. The kids were in the pool for hours and we did set off some fireworks in Grammy's driveway.

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Ryan has a rash, which I suspect is actually eczema, and he couldn't get in the pool because the chlorine makes it flare up. This was his way of cooling down.

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We're throwing Jason and Vanessa's shower this weekend so I've been in crafting mode. Here are a couple of this week's projects.

Cake stands and movie reels getting sprayed!

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I saw a girl wearing a shirt similar to this while we were in Austin last month. I knew I could make it fairly inexpensively. I think I only spent about $7 in materials. That's always a good feeling.

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