June 2017

When we arrived home from Steamboat, we jumped into a lot of summer fun!

The kids had their last Sunday in their Sunday School classes from this past school year.  Each class had a little something special to celebrate a great year!  Emma came home with lots of bright balloons!

One of my greatest joys this year has been watching Isaac become a stronger reader!  One of my very favorite parts of life right now is snuggling on the couch with my kids and reading myself to the kids or listen to Isaac read to us all!  And, I love when Isaac reads to his siblings.

Josiah is continuing his practice swimming lessons.  Isaac and Emma are always on hand to cheer and coach him!

We have been enjoying our Heritage pools a ton!

We bought this new rolling cooler to take to the pool, and Josiah loves to pull it!

And Emma always finds her food in the cooler and then heads to the top of this little hill to spread out her blanket and eat!  She says she wants to warm up in the sun.  :)

One particular night, Josiah was just so sad going to sleep.  I saw this on the monitor!  It made me think of all the things that I thought were important in a husband (and many of them were and still are), but how watching David as a dad makes me love him even deeper than I imagined than when we were married 14 years ago!

celebrating 14 years!

We had just started Whole 30, so we went to Bonefish and had grilled fish and steamed vegetables!  It was still a great night, even without the butter, bread, and dessert we love!  :)

Father's Day!  

We had a lot of fun grilling and swimming at my parent's!

Isaac, Emma, and Josiah overturned some of their chairs and were playing "army!"  Isaac decided that Emma should be the army nurse, so he found her a "nurse apron" to wear.  

Another morning, they were playing airplane pilots.  Isaac has seen some old videos where aviators wore scarves.  Playing soldiers and pilots makes me wonder why we have so many toys, ha!

Anna and Jon stopped for a quick visit!

We kept Addie and Amelia overnight while their parents were on vacation.  The girls loved having a sleepover in Emma's room!

It makes me laugh how Emma crosses her legs like this in her middle seat.

Josiah loves pickles and their juice!  He would easily keep drinking if we didn't stop him!  This really makes me wonder about cravings during pregnancy, because I craved dill pickles and coleslaw constantly and now Josiah loves both!  (He cried the other night when we wouldn't let him drink more pickle juice.)

Emma loves helping in the kitchen!

Emma and Josiah have only come to one of Isaac's swim meets this season--they are just so hot and long!  But, they really enjoyed their ice cream at the meet!

I had several things to shop for on my list, so one day I grabbed Happy Meals for the kids, loaded them into the double stroller, and power shopped!  I got so much done and they thought it was fun, too!  (This is probably because they have only been to the mall a handful of times!) They are great shopping partners; I was looking for a dress for Nate and Ashley's wedding, and Emma told me every single dress was "beautiful"!  Josiah would ask, "You going to buy that one?"  :)