July 16-31

Happy Birthday to this sweet, spunky girl! She requested cold cereal for her birthday breakfast!

She wanted to look at her baby book...

She used some of the money from Grandma Gayle and split the cost with Maliya to get a Calico Critter house to share :)

Summer pajamas, 

A new watch,

Calico Critter puppy babies. Hayden wanted them SO. BAD!

"MY! PUPPY!"

Maliya got Rachel this cute puppy in a carrying purse.

AND SHE GOT A BRAND NEW BIKE!!!

You know Hayden wanted in on the bike-riding action!

When we asked Rachel what she wanted to do for her birthday, she said she wanted her cousins to come over to play. So we had cousins come hang out with us and had a super fun time!

We enjoyed the beautiful evening with family for much longer than we should have. It was dark before we went in! But everyone was having fun. Who wants to go to bed, anyway?

Cuddling with my boy!

Maliya likes popping people's toes and fingers for them. It's a little weird.

Hayden was out with Dad and they saw this awesome car! Hayden was in love. This picture makes him so happy every time he sees it!

My sunflowers in full swing!

We had a few friends over for a late night. So fun!

This boy LOVES toast. He could eat it for every meal.

The kids like to play "police" with Brian. He has to put them in "jail." 

Grandma was in town for a while, so we did lots of fun things with Grandma and cousin. The Curiosity Museum...

The splash pad...

Our friends happened to be there the same day/time! Katie and Mia:

The random room at the beginning of the Dinosaur Museum..

We also went to This IS The Place Monument with Grandma Lisa.

Hayden LOVED the train! He didn't understand why we did anything else...shouldn't we just ride the train the whole time?

There was a little rainstorm, one Sunday. I talked the girls into going out on a walk with me. We stopped for pictures by the flowers, first.

The kids were CONVINCED that if it is raining, they should have coats...even in July. 

Yes, I was carrying the coats by the end of the walk.