July in a Nutshell

July has been a fun and busy month, so excuse the long post and tons of pictures, I'm just going to sum up the whole month in one shot. We spent a lazy morning at home on the 4th of July (is that unpatriotic to want to sleep in more than go to a parade - we felt like the Lehi parade the week before gave us our parade fix for the summer). In the afternoon we went to Lori Burrups mother's house in Springville where Cameron and Mike grilled us some great burgers (and eyebrows and arm hair as well). We then went up to Jordan and Amber's apartment and Jordan made us a great dinner on his grill - I was impressed by his grilling abilities! That night Mike surprised the family by getting us tickets to Stadium of Fire - Reagan was so happy to see "The Jonas Brother's" she was in tears and hugged Mike and told him he loved her so much - Mike said all the money for the tickets was worth that moment. Stadium of fire was great fun - especially seeing our favorite group "SheDaisy" perform.

As usual - the Cheetos were the biggest hit with the kids.

The next couple of weeks we got to spend seeing friends and family who come into town. That is one thing we have loved about living in Utah - we get to see a lot of people we love during the summer. Lauren, Trevor and their boys came. I don't know why I didn't take any pictures, I feel bad. We also got to go swimming several times, thanks to Sarah and Ryan Garrett let us visit her brother's house.

24th of July was a riot. Lehi City put on a "foam party" and covered a nearby park with foam, the kids had a great time splashing around in the foam. That night Matt and Erin Guercio, friends in our neighborhood, roasted a pig in their backyard and lit fireworks - it was quite the party, one we hope they do again next year:)

OK, I am on a roll, so I am going to do 2 posts. Kaylen celebrated her birthday while we were in Oklahoma. The kids associate birthday's at Nauni and Papa Jones's house with pinatas. We threw together a "tea cup" cake and had some friends over. It was a lot of fun, the only problem was that when we got home and it was Kaylen's actual birthday 2 days later, she threw a fit because we didn't have another party. I guess you can't win with 6 year olds.

I am still trying to catch up on our fun Oklahoma trip. Mom treated all of the girls to lunch at a "tea room" and we had a wonderful time putting on hats and acting proper. It was so fun to watch Kaylen, Reagan and my friend Jessica's daughter, Ashley, pretend to be grown up. They got their own tea pots filled with lemonade. It was such a cute place and we had such a fun time that I thought it would be fun to open up a "tea room" here in Utah, but I don't know how well a tea room that doesn't offer real tea would go over.

I have finally decided to break down and join the blogging world. I am mostly doing it for the sake of our family history, so I'm sure it won't be the most interesting thing out there, but hopefully I can use this instead of scarpbooking, because that is a thing of the past at this point in my life. I decided I would start with our very fun trip to Oklahoma. We had a great time - Nauni and Papa Jones took advantage of the opportunity to spoil the grandkids. Lauren, Trevor, Bryce, and Dallin were able to come as well. We went down to Turner Falls and had a great time playing at the waterfalls and "hiking" down the river.