Keepin' It Fantastic: July 2011

Now we like Ice Cream!

We like the stuff a little more than we did one year ago :)

(Don't adjust your computer - It was so hot/humid that the camera lense fogged up)

Sunday Morning at the Rose Garden

Getting up early seems to be a weekend trend for this group. After a bath and breakfast everyone was ready for 10am church at 8am. What to do for two hours?

Off to the Rose Gardens. It was a beautiful morning and the rain had cut some of the humidity. We played in the fountain and walked around to see all the beautiful flowers.

"Ooooooooo!!!!"

This was my screensaver-esque pic

Dan thinks this is OK!

Not sure what Mia thinks...

Just a tad too big

Havin' something to say

Family pic (- Tahoe)

I am not going to narrate these picture from girls weekend because we all know what happened ;) The ladies that were able to make it this year: Sara McMonagle, Carissa (Toots) Delestre, Mel Marshall, Eve Hessler, Laurel Sturlaugson, and Jessi (me) Linde.

Mom & Mia Morning

With Dad at work, Mom and Mia had the morning to themselves. We went out for breakfast at Sarah's Table (where we read about cats), to the lakewalk for a morning 3 mile walk, throwing rocks into the water, Tahoe swam and fetched sticks, and the Mia was asleep in 2.2 seconds once we got back to the car.

Lindo with the Hadiari

To the Lindo with Reg, Ella, and Sammy. Mia spent the whole time dippin her cheesy puffs into the salsa... delicious!

HOT JULY

It has been ridiculously hot this July! There is only one solution for that...

4th of July Week 2011

It was a HOT 4th of July weekend this year. The holiday fell on a Sunday so the fireworks at 10:15pm ended up happening too late to take Mia too (having work on Monday and all). We had a wonderful weekend though. Grandma Janet and Grandpa Howie came up as did the Atkinsons. Lots of food eating and game playing were the big hit on the 4th.

This is also the weekend that we got a red wagon. After many Craig's list attempts we finally just gave in and splurged on a new one. After Ashley A. used her mechanical skills to help me put it together we introduced Mia to her new wagon. BEST PURCHASE EVER! Mia spent an hour just opening the door, shutting the door, getting in the wagon, getting out of the wagon, sitting down in the wagon, playing with the seatbelts, opening the secret storage compartment, putting things in the wagon, taking them out of the wagon... you name it and she was all about it as long as the wagon was involved.

The whole group just hanging out.

Mia's daycare informed us that she kind of "hoards" the dolls when she is there so we figured that maybe we would just get her one for home. We adopted Ryleigh Genevieve from the Cabbage Patch and Mia brings her everywhere!