We're pretty proud of our garden this summer! James has done an awesome job (with a little help from his girls)! We've had lots of zucchini, carrots, green onions, cherry tomatoes, peas and corn. Yum!!

We also grow some pretty cute girls!! 

Wrestlin' with Dad...Who says you need boys to rough house? ;)

July Instagrams

7.1.2013

Pool time! #tryingtobeattheheat

7.2.2013

Bike ride to the library.

#summerreading #summerbucketlist

7.4.2013

Happy 4th!! #godblessamerica

7.6.2013

Arrrggghhh!! #familyreunion

7.11.2013

How Claire stays entertained on road trips...for a few minutes at least.

#thereareaboutahundredmore #wishshewouldnap!!

7.12.2013

Early Anniversary date night. #8years #lovehimmoreeveryday #photobyavri :)

7.13.2013

Had the funnest time with our ward at Steadman's waterslides. 

#summerfun #candycannon #loveourward #lds

7.15.2013

Happy Anniversary babe!

7.17.2013

Avri picked outfits for today... #housefullofgirls

7.22.2013

Late night #glowstick walk. #summerbucketlist

7.27.2013

This little lady wanted #breakfastinbed for her early birthday celebration. 

#emmysturning4 #july30 #illbeatgirlscamp #sniffle

7.27.2013

The little lady's ladybug party was a success! #emmysturning4 #thanksfriends :)

7.29.2013

How about some birthday love for this cute boy!! 

#happybirthday #32 #couldhebeanycuter #lovehim

Happy Birthday Emery!

Emery is FOUR today!! So grateful for this beautiful little sassafrass in our family. I'm currently tenting it up at Girl's Camp, and missing being with my Boo Boo on her special day, but here's Emery's birthday interview and a couple things about her at this age:

What’s your favorite color? Violet and Pink

What's your favorite animal? Peacock

Favorite food? Homemade Macaroni & Cheese

Least Favorite Food? I don't really have one.

Favorite movie? Sleeping Beauty

Favorite song? Taylor Swift
Where is your favorite place to go? Disneyland (we've never been...she's dreaming!), shopping with you.

What's your favorite thing to do? Play games and playing with friends, "and going to pools, I just love hot springs".

What are you good at? Helping make dinner, washing the dishes, going really fast on my scooter, drawing.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Musketeer, a ballerina.
Who is your best friend? Peyton

What makes you happy? Playing with Avri

What makes you sad? "I don't know!"

What’s your favorite toy to play with? My horses
If you had $100, what would you buy? I'd buy one hundred stuff!
What was your favorite thing about being 3? "I just like to be 3"
What are you most excited about for being 4? For eating all my cake

*She calls crayons "crowns". Who knows why and it doesn't matter how many times you correct her, they are crowns to her.
*Emery can be full of it! I am often embarrassed/entertained by the things I hear she has said to neighbors, Primary teachers, etc. The girl has quite the imagination and comes up with quite the crazy things to say!
*She is super friendly. She makes a new best friend everywhere we go and loves to meet new kids at the store, the park, church, etc.
*It is a rare, rare thing for her to put her shoes on the right feet.
*One day she asked me "Do you want to hear a song I learned at school?" I told her I sure did! She paused and said, "Hold on, it has to load first."
*She loves to make up songs and sing while she plays.
*She loves to say the prayer and is proud to tell us after most prayers, "I closed my eyes the whole time!!"
*She loves to be outside and play, play, play, play!!
*She still talks out of the side of her mouth from time to time, and it still cracks us all up.
*She gets really excited about things and will get right in your face to tell you about it. She gets so animated, it's so funny!
*She loves to repeat quantity-ish words. A lot. When she says she loves you she will say, "I love you so so so so soooooo so so soooo soooo so so so so sooooooo....(etc, etc) much!" Or one day she was saying something about how your great great great great great great great (on and on) Grandma would be dead. Silly girl.
*She and Avri sure do their fair share of fighting, but they really do love to play together and run around the neighborhood with their cute group of friends.
*Emery is a great big sister to Claire and they love to be goofy together. Emery does often hide herself from Claire so Claire won't "mess up" what she is playing with.
*While giving me a squeeze she said, "When I hug you like this it means I love you."

(Please don't mind the dead grass and poor background choice, I was in a hurry to get a couple pictures before I dropped the girls off with my Mom.)

Her favorite pose ;)

Ladybug Party

Emery was so excited for her ladybug birthday party!! She had a few of her cute little friends come over and they made bug jars, went on a ladybug hunt, played a water balloon game, ate ladybug cupcakes, had a ladybug pinata, and Emmy got lots of fun birthday gifts!! So glad the birthday girl was happy with her party!!

 

We gave Emery a scooter!! She loves it and zips around all over!

Our ward had the funnest activity at Steadman's! It's pretty much in this family's yard but they let church/family groups come have events. There are two huge slip n' slides, a zip line, trampoline, candy cannon, swings, sandbox, etc... We had such a great time!