July 24th

For July 24th, we went over to a park in West Jordan and did some of the carnival stuff, and then stayed for the fireworks. The kids loved it

 Since the 24th was on a Thursday, we decided to celebrate the 25th also with some of our own fireworks in the cul-de-sac. We invited some neighbors, and the Sohm's came down to join us. 

Baby Maisy is Born

After a few stressful days on not knowing if Maisy was going to be ours (the Dad was trying to get custody) we finally got her and she is ours. She was born July 17th but because of complications with the birth Mother and her request to having Maisy with her they had to wait several days before they got to take her home. But boy were we all glad to have her with us and was such a blessing. 

We went to visit just after they got her home. These two are almost exactly 2 months apart. Maisy being a girl and newborn made Rockwell look huge! We laughed about it a lot, and loved seeing the comparison. 

 The cousins minus Mac, because he was tired and being a stink, ha

Lake Almanor

 This was such a bittersweet year at Almanor. We were so excited to go, but knew it would be our last year. Grandpa and Grandpa are getting older (Grandpa is getting more sick with his disease) so they said this would be our last year.

Long drive over, but this happy guy was still content and happy as usual. 

Grandma making the famous Snoopy waffles 

Rock was only 2 months old, so he made it a whole 10 minutes down and the beach and then got tired, haha. He was still too young to be in the sun, and the water was cold, so he was stuck in the carseat

 Mac and Gpa on the mattress, a Almanor favorite to float around the swimming area

Mac playing catch with Calvin. These two are close in age and were cute playing together 

We had a great week at Almanor, and made many memories as usual. 

Free Slurpee Day

 We are lucky to have a 7-11 within walking distance of our new house. We have walked over several times on hot days to cool off with a slurpee. Every July 11th, (7-11) its free slurpee day. So of course we had to go. The kids loved it 

Poor Rock is still too small for slurpees but I put mine in his seat on the way home and he gave this cute face like he was mad that he couldn't have some. Maybe next summer Rockwell...

4th of July

 Our first ward activity that we attended in the new ward (Country Crossing 11th) was the 4th of July breakfast. The kids had a bike parade so we decked them out and went over to the church.

After the breakfast and bike parade we headed up to spend the day with Gma and Gpa.

Throwing water balloons up as high as they can

One of Mac's favorite things is to play in the garage with Grandpa. Every time they go out they have a routine of things they do, one of them being sitting on the motorcycle. Mac had just pushed the button to start it and Mac gave this cute surprised face.

Rock chillin with Dad in the house, not even 2 months old yet.

Rockwell's Blessing Day

Our very last Sunday in the Midvale 7th Ward, before we moved to South Jordan, we blessed Rock. We had started to move our things over to the new house already but since we had so many friends in the ward and Josh had been serving the bishopric we wanted to have him blessed before we left. It was bittersweet to leave the ward we had grown so close to. 

The men that were in the circle: 

Everyone who came except for the few who were at home preparing lunch including Connie, my Mom and Cindy. We had a huge group of people to come support us! We had the lunch at the new house after and it was fun to show it to everyone for the first time. 

Rockwell in his blessing outfit, such a little stud 

Lyla Graduates Preschool

Lyla graduated her first year of preschool. Can't believe she only has one more year until kindergarten, so crazy. They had a little program and it was so adorable

Lyla and her teacher Laurie. She is a very sweet and funny lady, we really enjoyed having her as a teacher this year. Since we are about to move we will have a different teacher for her 2nd year. 

Easter

We went up the night before Easter to dye eggs to get ready for the bunny the next day. 

Lyla loving the cool multi-colored ones

Easter morning

Family picture, just a month out until I'm due with baby #3!

Randi's family was in town and they were staying with my parents and Wally came up that day so we had a lot of fun with so many kids for the Easter Egg Hunt 

Finding an egg in the golf cart! 

Ron and family came up for Easter dinner, and Wally requested a family "plank pose" 

Moving to the New House

We bought our first house! It made us nervous, it was stressful, a lot of decisions about what it should look like. But it was the most exciting thing to watch it being built. We would drive over every week for about 4 months to see what they had worked on since we were there last. It was like Christmas coming to see the additions and watch our vision come together. 

We started moving our stuff during the first few weeks of June and every night after Josh got off of work we would take a load over. It was long and exhausting, but it seemed to be easier at the time to not have to do one big move since we just had Rock a few weeks before. When we finally got settled in it was around the 3rd week of June and was so nice to be there and have our FIRST home! 

We started getting several deliveries from RC Willey like our fridge and couch. That truck made me so happy every time it pulled up! 

Not all the houses on our block were finished so as the last few were finished up they had mounds of dirt, dump trucks, and all kinds of fun construction stuff to play on. 

In July, as part of my birthday, we bought out first awesome outdoor home addition: the swingset. It has been played on every day and the kids love it. Best purchase ever. I put together most of it by myself at night in the garage and then Dad came over to carry it to the back and hook the swing part onto the house. It made it really feel like our own house as we added things into the yard.