July Just Flew By...

Ok, so July basically flew by and I am just now catching up and posting some pictures! I'm so terribly sorry, but you know how it goes...one thing after the next and pretty soon the month is over! Here's the highlights of our exciting month of July...

Barb (my dear friend from work) has an annual barbeque for a group of us from work and it's always a good time. We laugh our butts off!! Here's some fun pics of the night at Barb's house.

Barb and Nancy sharing a story as I rudely interupt with my camera

Emily and I having a cuddle moment....very rare these days!

Ok, doesn't she look way too innocent here? Ha! We all know better!!!

Emily taught everyone to put their noisemakers up their noses....how mature. Here's Franki and Bar copying her

Aunt Pam came out from Colorado to visit my parents and we had the pleasure of hosting a pizza night at our house. It was so fun to have everyone over...even Uncle John came along.

Renee, Michelle, David, and Emily eating pizza and sharing stories

Aunt Pam, Mom, Emily and Michelle in the backyard after dinner...Penny joined us too

Dave and Scott traveled up to Portland to vacation with some friends and we drove down one day to spend the day with them. We had a wonderful brunch at their elegant hotel and we went to the Portland Childrens Museum to play with all the fun displays. We ended our wonderful day with room service ice cream and it was the best ice cream we had ever had!!

Brunch at the hotel...even Rudy was there

Emily pretending to ring Dave up at the little grocery store at the Childrens Museum. She loved this!! What a good little worker she will be one day...

Posing outside the museum

Dave, Emily, and Scott in the sitting room of their hotel suite where we had ice cream

We also traveled to Spokane (this time it was a mini vacation and Emily stayed at Nana and Papa's house). We took the road trip with our friend Kayse who was a good sport with all our silliness and jokes. We had a great time. We were going to Spokane to attend Kate's sister, Elisa's wedding.

Kayse and I at the Iron Horses stop along the way...isn't the view gorgeous??

Todd and I before we left for the wedding on the patio at our hotel
Kim, Me, Todd, and Kayse before we left for the wedding

Todd and I at Azecta having margaritas before the wedding

The beautiful wedding ceremony at the Catholic church in Spokane

Bridesmaid Miranda and Maid of Honor Kate at the wedding reception

For our friend, Doug's birthday we threw him a surprise Luau and it was at Franki's sister's house...it was amazing and it was so hot that day, just like Hawaii! Here's some of those pics.

James, Justin, Doug and Todd

The food table...Todd and I cooked it all that day and it was so much fun!!

Franki and Kate

We also managed to squeeze in a lot of pool time in our backyard. It's about 10 feet wide and 3 feet deep and it's perfect for us and our little Emily.

Our New Oasis

Last week Todd and I decided to tear apart our old pond that we put in last year and put in a whole new setup in hopes that it would look prettier and no leak!! For those of you that don't know the old one had a terrible leak in it that we could never find and we had to fill the thing daily!! It was awful. So anyway, we tore it all up (with the assistance of our friend Kate who was so quick to lend a helping hand) and in a weeks time it looked beautiful!! Here's a couples pics of before and after.

This was the completed pond last year

This is the new and improved waterfall pond....

Isn't it so much prettier?? :) If I do say so myself anyway! Todd did an awesome job!!!