Lily's First Birthday and Fourth of July

Lily's 1st birthday was on July 2 and so we combined parties and celebrated her birthday and Independence Day at Grandma's and Grandpa's in LA.  It was quite a party!  Everyone swam, ate and enjoyed watching Lily open presents!  

Tried something new instead of a cake--a cupcake cake!

Dexter and Abby opened a little gift too!  Hard to understand why one kid gets all the presents!

Blanket I made for Heather's soon to be baby boy!

 

Happy 1st Birthday Lily Bug!!!  We love you.

July Pictures

I took the girls to JCPenney for some pictures and it was quite an adventure!  I learned that taking 3 girls by myself was a really bad idea.  The goal was to take Lily's 1 year pictures, but Lily would not hold still for anything!  We still got some pictures, but I think we exhausted the photographer!

End of June

The end of June found us dancing, doing gymnastics, painting and having fun lunch parties together.  I love my girls.

 Abby went to dance about 3 times a week in the summer and had lots of different teachers.  Miss Jenny below is in charge of the dance department and Abby does really well with her.

Lily and Lexy at dance and gymnastics

More Garden

Our garden kept growing all summer!  We found ourselves with a tomato explosion and Matt doesn't even like tomatoes!  But he enjoys going outside and grabbing a jalapeno or green pepper.

Our Fridays at the library are a lot of fun and when Matt came the kids ended up building a car out of a box.  Abby and Matt built a great car (that Lily soon tried to take apart!).