For the July! And Bouncing! And Swings!

How are we halfway through July already?  I feel like we've spent summer watching it rain.

Happy 'For the July!'  We all wore our 'July clothes.'  And flew the flag.

And enjoyed the brief sunshine.

Take a picture of me with my flowers and the flag!

We didn't do anything super special on the Fourth.  I made a flag fruit pizza... woot woot.  In the evening we headed to Ron and Kary's to watch fireworks. 

Cecily and Emma ran around together and watched fireworks together. 

Emmy loves to slide.

Trying out Ron's bottle launcher.

Then it got too dark for pictures, but we brought sparklers (from Tate), Aunt Shelly brought glow sticks for the kids, and of course we watched the fireworks.  Emmy loved it all.  She would point and say 'ooooooohh.'  She was pretty much having the best day ever.  *grin*  We stayed for snacks and got home late... oh well.

Sunday evening was the annual Koch family water fight.  There were kiddie pools and a slip and slide for the kids.  Emmy especially loved the slip and slide.  It was rather funny to see. 

She would also scoot after water balloons.....even onto the gravel. 

In context:

I didn't get many pictures of Cecily since she didn't stay in one place long enough.  And then my camera died and it has been deemed not worth fixing.  Cecily was done with swimming and inside as soon as they started shooting off some fireworks.... it was 'too loud' for her. 

So the next pictures are cell phone pics and I have an old phone....  they're not very good. 

Someone takes full advantage of the fact that we don't have cabinet doors yet.  

The girls and I went to the farm on Wednesday to make applesauce.  I'm not sure why, since Bob and I don't love applesauce and I don't love making it.  The girls do though.  Grandpa was twiddling his thumbs a little since it's so wet so he got to play with the girls too.  And clean out the chimney access... haha.  We came home with 15 pints of sauce. 

I have no desire for a strawberry patch so I stuck some everbearing plants in with my flowers.  She's tall enough to reach in and pick them even if they aren't even pink. 

On Friday we went to a birthday party at Monkey Joe's- for two boys that Cecily has never met.  So weird. *grin* Bob works with their dad so we all got invited to the party.  It was fun, even though I didn't know anyone and most of the guests were Spanish speaking family.  They served us pizza and cake and we all sang happy birthday.... and it was not in four parts like I'm used to singing happy birthday.  Ha!
The girls both loved it.  This picture is posed because she wouldn't stay still long enough for a picture. 

Emmy loved bouncing and would point at the big slide until Bob would take her down it.

I forgot to warn Cecily that 'Monkey Joe' would be coming to the party.  She was very unsure, poor girl.  The boy next to her in the red hat was one of the birthday boys.

So Alex and Rafael's birthday's were well celebrated, and the girls each got a goody bag to take home and a balloon to share.  I tried to figure out my new camera while they checked out their loot... 

Candy and toys... they loved it and now Cecily thinks she's going to have a birthday party there. Sorry, not going to happen.  *grin* 

Saturday morning was rainy, but we put together our new swing set anyway.  Poor Cecily had been waiting days to get her slide. 



Susan was home and helped for a while.

Don't mind our dirty garage.  This is just as much fun as sliding!

Silly girls.

We got the frame set up during a break in the rain.

And then put the slide on after the storm went through.  She was soooo happy.

Trying out the swing.  Emmy was pretty excited about it all too.

And we got the seesaw done just in time before I needed to leave to drop the girls off at the farm for the evening. 

I'm blaming it on 3 short nights in a row (getting to bed late, 3 bed wetting incidents, and a 14 month old who won't sleep all night) but I changed Emmy's diaper before we left and forgot to put her pants back on... oops.  They had a great time and we had a good night at testimonies. 
The girls were not deterred by the heat and humidity after church and wanted to be outside swinging and sliding.  I think it was a good purchase, even if I'm not looking forward to mowing around it!
Blessings.