CELEBRATION!

July is a very busy month! 4 of the 6 of us have birthdays in July. We have had our fill of cake. Matthew turned 9 and was thrilled to get some more SPY gear - being a spy is all he talks about these days. Noah turned 6 and got the Bumblebee Transformer voice changer helmet and blaster. Isaac is no longer a baby. He turned 2 and loved his Elmo and Pooh cards that sang to him. This is the first year I haven't made the boys cakes myself. We got them at Sam's club...they were too cute to pass up.

Vacation

We recently had a family reunion in Iowa with all of Mike's family. We had a ladder golf tournament, caught lightening bugs, swam, rode the carousel and ate a lot of food! Then we moved on to Nauvoo to visit some church history sites including Carthage Jail and saw the wonderful pageant about the building of the Nauvoo temple. We rode the wagon pulled by the horses and then the wagon pulled by the oxen. We played games and celebrated Matthew's 9th birthday at a little Mexican Restaurant in Keokuk. Here are some highlights...