July Stuff

Here are a bunch more pictures of all the nothing we've been up to for the month of July:

Our neighbors, the Hawkins, moved to Florida!  It was all very sudden and my kids have been very sad to not have (the very aptly named) Scarlett to play with, in addition to her older sisters Abbi and Makenzie.  They're only renting out their house, so I still have hope that they'll come back some day...

Of course, their departure meant lots of block parties to wish them well:

l-r: Camille, Colton, Sydney, Beth (in the back), Scarlett

This picture is deceptive.  Everyone is TOTALLY six feet apart!

Kendra put together this awesome Eiffel Tower puzzle!

And she somehow had this magical-looking ringlet in her hair!  I'm so jealous!

Lots of card games going on in this house...

Oreo looks very festive with a scrunchy around her ears!

Craig made me amazing peanut butter brownies for my birthday!  (This is before they were frosted!)

Probably should have put on makeup for the big day.  But honestly, who cares???

Craig and I enjoyed the sunset at Carter Mountain!

Can you spot my house down there???

One day, Camille was very sad.  I no longer remember why, but I'm sure it was DEVASTATING, whatever it was...!

Another day, the kids re-discovered all their favorite costumes!  Ryder was especially excited for his wizard hat and wand!

Craig, Bentley, and Kendra participated in virtual camp and it went surprisingly well!

Kendra built this indoor shelter and slept under it one night!

And she also made a birdhouse!

And Bentley had fun playing minute-to-win-it games!

We're slowly figuring out how to have church again!  I really love that Camille's mask matched her dress so perfectly!  And, thanks to the movie Spies in Disguise, my boys LOVE putting on their church clothes and pretending to be spies!  WIN.

And sometimes we're just snuggly and goofy!

Craig wanted a 4-layer cake for his birthday!  (Clearly, we've been watching too much of The Great British Baking Show!)  Fortunately, he was happy to help out.  Once we put a whipped cream cheese layer on all of that, it looked quite good!

I climbed Humpback Rock with a bunch of my friends early on a Saturday morning.  (And TOTALLY had to suck in to look like that!  😬 )

Craig's parents offered to pay for us to all eat out one night, so we got Five Guys AND let the kids order milkshakes!  They were in heaven!

(No.  We can't fit at one table!)  Thanks, Tom and Donna!!!

Bentley finds ways to make a snuggie even MORE snuggly!

Apparently Camille and her friend Sydney decided they wanted to learn to sew, so Sydney's mom set them to work sewing on paper towels.  Brilliant!

More card games

Bentley found this little guy at the pool

And Craig got to help out with a baptism-- the work still goes forward, even with COVID!

And we're not done yet-- I've got more to tell you about soon!