family, friends, and the fourth of july

 The first week of July, we celebrated Independence Day with our annual BBQ and fireworks show with friends.  It was a blast!

 We also spent that week with so much of Bart's family. We helped host a family reunion with Bart's dad's family and had lots of fun catching up with relatives we don't get to see very often.  The best part of that week thought, was seeing our sister-in-law Charise and her 4 kids, who we hadn't seen in 3 years while they were living in Germany!  They spent several days with us, and my kids were in cousin heaven!

 Everly LOVED having a girl in the house to play dolls with!

 And of course, she wanted to hold her cousin Piper all day every day!

 We so loved having them here, and we were so sad to say goodbye to them again, not knowing when we would get to see them again.

june fun!

Here are some highlights from June:

 Last day of school!  Last day of 6th grade for Kade and Ky

 Last day of Kindergarten for Krew

 We went to the wildlife sanctuary one day, and there was so much cotton fluff from the cottonwood trees, that it almost looked like it had snowed!

 We bought a season pass to the local pool, and made sure we went swimming a lot!

 We went to the park a lot, and even found some new playgrounds to play on.

 We shot some firearms just for the fun of it!

 We played with some friends' farm animals, just for the fun of it!

 The little kids and I went strawberry picking, and then promptly ate most of our harvest!

 We visited another farm where we fed the goats, held kittens, held baby chicks, watched chicks hatching, and held baby kittens some more.

 We went to a few festivals  where we got our faces painted, played games, and met ALL the princesses!

 We went to a baseball game, and it happened to be the same game that all the Star Wars characters attended as well.  Who knew that Darth Vader likes to watch baseball??

 June was super fun, and a great way to kick off the summer!