August Oh August!!!

So we had THE WEDDING, THE HEAT WAVE, THE ANTS, yard work, and SCHOOL. This post will focus on.......

THE WEDDING!

Our friends Rob and Mary are parents to a wonderful little dork named Hollie whom we love. Well Hollie went off and fell in love with Ryan and so we had a wedding. It was the weekend from hell but it turned out heavenly. James was the photographer. Here is my FAVORITE picture. There were tons but this was my favorite. I even ran and got it printed and framed for their reception.

And the .........

The HEAT WAVE.

It was awful hot humid and gross. I have no other words. I will take Arizona in August over those days. Those of you who live or have lived in Arizona understand. I love dry heat but those days were not dry AT ALL!! We sat around like zombies in a blacked out fan crazy house. NUTS!! We did visit a friend who has a pool and had a great time! (Thanks Carly!) We also played in the sprinkler.

Tyler

Elizabeth doing some crazy water dance.

Connor knows how to cool off!!!

July ended with a THUD!

We took down three of our ten back yard trees. James' best bud Rob came and chopped them down for us. It was two plus weekends of crazy hot messy work. The kids helped clean up the mess too (their choice for the most part) and they enjoyed watching the whole tree dropping business.

Then we took down the play house or toy garage as Tyler called it. What a mess. Again it was a family affair.

James and I got to grind out the stumps. Ohh Ahh! Then the big boys (James and Rob) took the bobcat to the yard and leveled it out.

So that wraps up July!

October makes me think of......

(I will continue my summer updates later)


My mother making an AWESOME mummy costume for my little brother. It was SO COOL!!!! Then he looked in the mirror and cried like a little baby and went trick or treating as a Hobo. DORK. LOL!!!!!!!

The year my mom made my sister look like some Japanese garden fairy type person. She did the most amazing eye make up. I wish I had pics to post.

We never had store bought costumes and many years we went as Hobos but we always had fun.

My Mom is very creative and very talented. It came in handy for ALL holidays.