July

I loved these pictures Eve took:

We had a fun time watching the fireworks the City of Jerome put on a few days before the 4th from Marsha's driveway:

Eve is still pretty nervous about fireworks but she did much better this year.

On the actual 4th we had another gathering at our place. Natalie caught a frog:

Becca brought this amazing caprese on toast:

We had a BBQ and then lit off some fireworks and watched others in our area:

Our garden kept growing! It made me and Eve happy to check the progress of everything.

I still love getting sleeping pictures of her sometimes:

We went to Greenwood for the Allen reunion. Of course we had to hit the pool right away:

Grandpa made some AMAZING homemade ice cram that we loved:

Another fun cousin go-karting trip:

I got these cute pictures on a walk with Eve:

We had a blast playing pickleball and tennis:

Another walk looking for golf balls with Natalie and Eve:

She was so excited to go play golf:

A random snapshot someone took of our place. We stayed with Matt and Melissa and had a lot of fun learning Dragoness and playing other games with them.

Chris rented a boat and we got a turn on it with Emily helping out. The kids all tried wakeboarding:

Nate got up pretty quick:

Eli had a hard time so this was the most he got up before falling:

Natalie had a hard time too:

Lizzie managed to get up after some tries:

We did pictures one night:

We did another height order grandkid pic:

And some age order ones too:

We missed Ivy, Brayden and Hannah who had to leave early for work.

Another garden progress shot when we got back:

The kids figured out how to climb up onto this ledge and liked to scare me:

I just loved Eve's curls one day. They are especially bouncy after swimming:

More random snapshots:

We went to the climbing gym one day:

I took this beautiful shot one night when I went to the canyon:

Lizzie made some amazing cookies one day:

We watched Charlotte's Web and I loved that Eve loved it:

Eli started a bread selling business and made like $110!

I took Eli and Eve to the stake pioneer day celebration:

A beautiful sunrise:

We went to an open house for James before he started Home MTC. I loved seeing these cousins together (sadly minus Natalie who was working):

Some of my kids got to go to his setting apart, too:

He gave a great farewell talk too.