JULY

HALLOWEEN TURNED 3!

Noelle “made” him his traditional “cake” of his kitty food decorated with crunchies;) 

And, of course, a hat…that he did not love. 

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We got him his very own basket too. We love this boy.  

Rise of Gru movie with Uncle Don:) This was a fun day.  We played California Dreamin’ in the car on the way to the theater…Beach Boys version of course, because … Stranger Things and Uncle Don was really hilarious and so much fun to watch rock out, drumming on his knees and really getting into it.  

Girls loved it and laughed so hard:) The movie was hilarious and fun too and I found myself laughing at all the same parts as Uncle Don did :) hehe.  

July 3rd. Michael filled in for Amy, teaching Sunday school and Soph got this picture:) 

Cute Mason wanted to be held. Then Soph offered to take the girls after church for a few hours while we finished the final episode of Stranger Things 4! It was wonderful! Uninterrupted fun :) hehe! 

Thanks Soph. 

4th BREAKFAST. Looks a little weird. Ha! 

Crafting…

Swimming at Tia Stephanies.  I live in the hot tub for hours on this day every year…with a Mountain Dew and strawberry dessert made by Darla:) love it.  We also watched The Sandlot, had some oven s’mores (after Ham explains how to make and eat them “smalls!”, worked on legos, my Dobby crochet project, and Michael made us meatballs and purple roasted potatoes for lunch.  YUM. 

When we came home after fireworks the night was CRAZY & LOUD!  Tons of illegals again, this year.  The girls were slightly freaked out and Noelle said this right before bed “you know what might be better than fireworks for the 4th of July. Donut rain.” Hehe.  Fun and sticky!

The night after the 4th we started watching Stranger Things with the girls.  Gwinna has been so curious about it all.  We have it EXTREMELY filtered through vidangel for them and it is so much fun! They still get the great story line without the violence, swearing, and creeper images.  

Two days after 4th Noelle got sick, then Gwinna, then Sia … like clock work, it seems…family get together..sick two days later…oh well. 

GET AIR with these girlfriends. 

Kinda fun because Gwinna walks with me and chats when she gets tired now. 

 She’s not a huge fan of jumping.  

Tried to recreate this moment in Grover Beach from 6 years ago!!!!

Sometimes we go outside…

GWINNA’S 10TH BIRTHDAY. 

We stayed home for this, as we usually do, but all girls were kinda sicky still for it so we had to too.  The girls always pick the best gifts for each other…imma just stop buying anything:) Gwinna got donuts for breakfast, and chose all of our meals for the day.  Aunt Lili made the coolest card ever for her!

 So detailed & amazing.  I don’t know how she does it!  

Tia Stephanie and Tia Sophia came over one right after the other, it was like they planned it! Good timings. Good time popping purple confetti balloons all over the place.  

My Gwinna Jovee is funny.  She picked out 3 of the 5 gifts I got her… she prefers not to be surprised. 😆 

The BEST summer puzzle from Grandma!!!

Letters and art from our sweet Remi & Jet!!!!

Other happenings of the month:

How cool is Sia…she drew out the shirt dress she wanted to create and then did it.

We finally had our missionaries over! Yay! We fed them pizza plus & did root beer floats. Simple & lazy.

 

Me and Michael spoke together on the 17th.  Always a stressful moment but it went well.  NOT stressful for Michael at all.  I also had to teach that Sunday because I temporarily switched with Bree;) 

And then of course reunion in Tahoe!!!! WOO!