July and August 2013

Brandon's 30th birthday was June 27th. We had some friends over for dinner and I made him a peanut butter cheesecake with a fancy homemade oreo crust. It turned out great! Phew!

Bike ride with Baby Emma

 I love looking at her chubby thighs when we go on a walk.

Pooltime!

I can always count on them to help me make cookies.

1 year checkup!

Getting our peach on at the orchard! Peaches, peach donuts, peach cider, and peach ice cream.

Double-fistin at Sweet Frog frozen yogurt. 

Mommy-Josh date to see a movie, get ice cream, and window shop.

Visit from my good 'ol college friend April!

Emma ripping up Josh's train track... she's enjoying it way too much.

In Primary we extended a challenge to the kids to read, watch, or listen to 9 General Conference talks over the summer. Whoever completed the challenge by the deadline was invited to attend an ice cream party. The kids got into the challenge, almost all of them completed it, and they had so much fun at the ice cream party. The nursery kids did it too! And Brandon said he was going to challenge the Young Men to do it too so we invited the Young Women to do it too so it ended up practically being a ward party!