July

We babysat cute Avree for a few hours one July morning. Let's just say she will never suffer from a lack of attention. We just can't stay away from her cuteness! Having a niece that lives in town is so fun.

Our Fourth of July celebrations just wouldn't be right if we didn't start the day off watching the parade at Grandma Murray's house on Main Street. Hopefully after the house sells we'll still be able to watch the parade there, not owning the property doesn't seem to stop anyone else from taking up the front yard!

My parents and Laura were in the parade with the All-Star Team. Laura sneak attacked the innocent parade watchers and got us really good with her squirt gun.

We had a few minutes to wait while the softball girls got picked up and the rest of the family met back up at Grandma's so we played in the back yard for a bit.

Of course again we couldn't leave Avree alone.

Once our fourth celebrations were over we spent as much time as we could enjoying our house since we would have to leave it soon. We had just finished the sandbox and never had enough time to ever get tired of it.

The most exciting part of our July was when Jessie came home from her mission! Well I was excited at least. Dustin and Mckay were just too worn out to stay awake when her plane was delayed.

Avree and Jessie had never met, since Avree was born while Jessie was serving in New York.

She finally arrived and I was so excited I couldn't hold still, thus why all of my pictures are blurry.

Libby and Trevin had been waiting so long to see her again. Mckay on the other hand is still warming up to her. She was Mckay's second mother before she left but 18 months is a long to for a baby to remember someone. The rest of the family is SO glad to have her back!

It wouldn't be summer without a few trips to the park.

Then the time came for us to move. We got everything moved just in time for the stomach flu to ravage the whole family. 

We spent the last two weeks of July taking turns being sick and unpacking.