Making History

{Summer Part 1}

We were so happy that we could make it to the Oakley Rodeo this year! It is one of my favorite rodeos. The other cool thing about it is, I almost always run into several friends that I haven't seen for a long time at the rodeo arena.

Ya can't beat it!

Staring Contest:

Lily VS Steer

Lily won!

Checking out the bulls up close...

What a way to end the night at the Oakley rodeo: a picture with the rodeo queen herself. I LOVE Lily's face in this picture! It is too funny.

A hearty laugh for anyone that can come up with a funny caption to represent what Lily might be thinking!

{Fourth of July!}

We spent our 4th of July at Jackson and Mindy's house. The kids had a lot of fun and my brother Jackson put on quite the show!

Lily and my newest niece Maren.

It took a lot of convincing for Madi to hold the sparkler. Even after she did it, I don't think she enjoyed it that much!

Lily loved the sparklers!

My nephews Maddax and Maxton and my Daddy-O

Josh and my nephew Marshall.

Little Marshall was so funny sitting on Josh's lap. Marshall kept yelling to Jackson, his Dad, when he was lighting the fireworks, "Git out der Dad! It's burnin'! Git out der!"

He was holding on pretty good to Josh's arms to keep him safe. At one point, he looked up at Josh and said, "Thank you much."

Catching parachutes

Madilyn and Lily took turns holding roman candles! Yes, it made me a little nervous, but they loved it!

My nephew Peyton and my brother Dan showed up to celebrate with us.

If you asked Peyton what fireworks said, he'd get this look on his face (see picture above) and say, "Boom, booooom!"

We had a really fun 4th of July!

{Visit to Great Grandma Mim's}

On Josh's last day vacationing with us, we drove up with him to visit my Grandma Mim. My mom had been staying with her over the weekend so we thought it would be a perfect time to go. We all sat out front in the sunshine for a bit, then decided to visit my mom's step-brother John. He lives just across the road from Grandma and has a whole bunch of miniature donkeys. Grandma didn't have any carrots to feed them so we took them Chips Ahoy cookies.

What can we say? We're health nuts!

This sign cracked me up!

When we came back to Grandma's, Lily found all her baby dolls and took care of them.

Madi couldn't resist coloring...

Since Lily was wrapping up the baby dolls in dish towels, my Aunt Jan, who had come to stay with Grandma, thought that Lily should pick out some fabric to make a blanket. Aunt Jan sewed the blankets up and Grandma showed Lily how to tie it.

We had a great visit there and the girls were happy to go home with new blankets for their baby dolls!