More July

Lots of Family Fun this July.

We had a family day at the zoo one weekend and did the splash pad.

I love late lazy summer morning cuddles

Dylan loves mowing with Ben.

We've been letting the chickens free-range more and more since they are pretty much full grown now. Everyone is LOVING that.

We found out Lizzie is, in fact, a rooster (due to the loud cock-a-doodle-doo-ing every morning) so we had to let her him go to the nice man at Grapevine Feed. We haven't replaced him yet, but I miss that beautiful Barred Rock.

We spent one weekend at the lake with just our family and Pops and Gram.

It was full of chicken fights, slip n' slides, jet skis, boat rides, paddle boards and family dance parties.

We celebrated Uncle Matt-Matt's birthday by going to see he and Sandy's new house and eating in Trinity Groves at Casa Rubia.

We celebrated Uncle Alex's birthday at Buffalo Wild Wings

We appreciated cows and ate some chicken.

We also got free slurpees on 7/11 and got some free terrible face paint too.

So much summer fun!

Summer Reading

For the first time ever, we were regulars at the public library this summer.

Kinley got her own library card, which thrilled her.

Who would have thought checking out and returning books would be so fun?!

The Summer Reading Program was such a hit.

Read some books, log them, turn in your log, spin the wheel and get prizes.

We spun the wheel pretty much every week during the summer on Wednesdays and my kids loved it so much!

This was also the first time Dylan had his own activity which was toddler story time. He was super shy at first and wanted me to hold him the whole time.

But, slowly he learned the songs and opened up and by the end of the summer, he LOVED it!

We sing lots of the songs at home still.

Playing after storytime and spinning the wheel

Ty LOVES to work on the computers

I hope we can keep up our regular visits during the school year too!

4th of July

We spent the 4th at Camp David for the 18th annual celebration. 4th of July is pretty much my kids favorite weekend of the year.

Bart and Olivia used the holiday weekend as an opportunity for a little baby moon and Honey and Boss were keeping Anson which was just SO fun for us! Boss even joined us for the square this year so Anson could come with the kids. 
We loved having him at the lake with us this year!

We also had team games this year for the first time which was phenomenal.
We broke into two teams, red and blue.
Blue: Grandpas, moms, girl-kids vs Red: Grandmas, dads and boy-kids.
It was so much fun!!! And obviously Blue Team rocked!

Kinley was so excited about the 4th that the week of she could not stop talking about it.
She would tell me constantly what she was excited about and what we were going to do.
She was sort of obsessive about it.
She couldn't stop.
One time she came up to me and, very seriously, she told me how she had been walking around the backyard just reciting to herself what we were going to do and she couldn't stop thinking about it. 

I told her maybe she could move on if she just wrote it all down.
So she did.
Three pages full.
Every detail of every moment of every day we would be there. 

Basically I am just going to let Kinley describe what 4th of July in Granbury at Camp David is like each year.
She pretty much nailed it. 

Translation:
"Say hi's, unpack bags, Basketball, Golf, Up in the top room, Tennis, Swim, Watch movie, Go to bed

Eat donuts, Do looms, Top top room, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Swim, Watch movie, Go to bed 

Eat donuts, Do looms, Go to parade, Go swimming, Top top room ,Fashion show, Basketball, Catch lizards, Go swim, Top top room, Golf, Do tennis, Go on the boat and tube and jet skis, Do the olympics games, Go outside to fireworks and dance and sing to the music, Then watch a movie, And go to bed

Go back home"

Best Weekend of the Year!