The Good and The Bad, and the Ugly of July

The first part of July was incredibly busy for us, but then it was like everything stopped and we had nothing to do. Funny how that goes. July was incredibly hot and I felt like we stayed inside most of the time trying to stay cool. 

My Bestie Emily got married on July 7th to Kirk Fife. We were so excited we were able to see them sealed in the Jordan River Temple. 

 I went to mutual one night and got this hilarious text/ pictures from Tyler. I guess Brynnli had a blow out in her underwear and didn't make it to the bathroom in time. I have never been so happy to be out of the house!

Tyler: I guess it's a good thing you left. 

Me: Oh my gosh! That is hilarious! I am so happy I'm not home right now. 

Tyler telling me what Brynn said: "Oh no, oh no, I gots poop in my pants. Aah! Get it off! Get it off! Ewe it's on my noodle. There's poop everywhere! Wahhhhhh!"

Like I said, the ugly of July. 

We stopped by my parents house to drop off some cupcakes to my dad on his birthday.

 Then stopped at 7-11 for free Slurpee Day!

 Tyler and I got a text from Tammy at 7:00 p.m. asking if we could find a babysitter and go to the Pentatonix concert in an hour. Lucky for us we had just gone to dinner with our neighbors and my parents were already watching our kids, so we went to the concert! It was fun because we were basically on the front row. I didn't know any of the songs, but we had a great time.

 Then the very next night we went to see Keith Urban!! Eeek! I love going to concerts with Tyler!

 We also love funnel cake.

 One Saturday morning my worst nightmare came true. I had to take all three kids grocery shopping with me... on a Saturday... it was rough.

 But that night we went on a family date. We got pizza went to a park to play.

 I bought the Megaplex summer movie pass so we have seen about 10 kid movies this summer. I am getting really good at taking a nap during the movie.

 Lunch at the park!

 Caden is starting baseball in the fall, so Tyler and the kids have been practicing their baseball skills.

 We went to Kids Club at the mall and Rapunzel was there to read the kids a story. It was so cute!

 Makayla wanted her hair curly so we braided it and had her sleep on it overnight... here's the result.

 The kids love to have lemonade stands this summer. This one was with her friend Katie.

 I think it's about time to put Makayla in her own room. Brynnli makes these huge messes in their room and Makayla usually ends up cleaning it up. Brynnli is not the cleanest roommate.

As if we didn't see enough kid movies this summer, we had a cousin movie night to see Incredibles 2. If you were wondering what Brynnli is like at 3 years old, watch the movie because I'm pretty sure they used Brynnli as the inspiration for Jack-Jack. 

 

 The kids decided to have a sleepover upstairs in the tent they built. I think the only one who made it all night was Makayla.

 This was the girls' last night in their room together. We decided to move Makayla to the bonus room. As soon as we get her all settled and the room decorated, I'll have to post pictures of each of their new rooms. 

 Brynnli has really been wanting a new bike, so we gave her Makayla's old one. It has a flat tire that can't be fixed, but that doesn't seem to stop Brynn.

 Poor Makayla caught some kind of bug that made her sick for a few days. Poor girl!

Whelp, that's all for July folks!

Fourth of July Fun!

We had another great 4th of July this year, full of fun festivities. 

We headed up to The Land for the 4th. The kids wanted to run the 5k again this year. I told Tyler and Tracy they could run ahead and I would stay with Colton and Makayla. The funny thing was that the entire way I felt like I was pushing them along. I would tell them, "Let's just run to the next tree and then we can walk." Well we got almost to the end and I told them they just had to run to the next corner and we would be done, so they took off and I tried to catch up with them but they were too fast. I ended up finishing up almost a minute behind them, when all along I was ahead of them!

 I'm proud of these kids! It's not easy to run 3 miles, but they all did it.

 Then we were off to the funnest parade. It was perfect weather (in fact it was just a little bit cold), the parade was nice and short, and the kids got a lot of candy.

 Hey, why didn't the pony sing in the circus?

 Because he was a little horse... get it? (Tyler, that was for you!)

 I fear this child has developed an addiction to Dr. Pepper, just like her mom.

 We love celebrating Independence Day at our favorite vacation spot!

 On the actual 4th of July we had my parents and Ryan's family over for a bar-b-q as an early birthday party/ 4th of July party.

 Then we headed to West Jordan City Park for their fireworks show. It was great!

 The flash might have been a little too bright... sorry!

 Fireworks, family and fun... can't ask for a better way to spend the 4th!