{From the phone}

From my phone and all out of order:

Night time stories

 Working on the dresser outside

  

Working out

Matching toenails!

Making cinnamon rolls for our awesome Sunday school class - love those kids.

Trying to be a stowaway...

Sleepy faces...

Evette LOVES our weekly library visits. She could seriously stay there all day and pull every single book off the shelf and flip through it if I would let her.

Jenga is her favorite game. I build a tower, she knocks it down. She has recently started putting the blocks back in the box or transferring them from one box to another. Brilliant Baby.

Our morning runs

 

Cleaning the house

Playing outside/getting cleaned off after a spaghetti dinner 

 Enjoying the summertime!

{Snuggle Bug}

Evette has turned into a little snuggle bug! It's seriously adorable. Sometimes she just walks up [yes, walks up to me] to me throws her arms around me and gives me a great big hug. Also, whenever she sees anything soft on the ground [pillows, stuffed animals, blankets, old socks] she goes and lays on top of it and snuggles with it. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. It makes my heart melt.

{July Books}

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

My Dad and the husband both recommended this book to me. I've read a few of Card's books before and very much enjoy his style. This was a fun read - an interesting take on a fairy tale. It was riveting, exciting...etc...Recommend it. Good times.

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Yes, this was a re-read for me. I read this back in May but I'm hosting book club in a few days and I chose this along with the screwtape letters and wanted to reread it so it was fresh in my mind.

I loved it even more the second time through. I knew the whole story so I was able to make more connections and catch some more symbolism - it was fabulous.

{Dr visits}

For some reason this story never made it in the blog so I'll share it now:

When Evette was just over 3 months [early January] she was running a fever. She was a little bit fussy that day and I felt that she was getting warmer so I checked her temperature and she did have a fever. I called the health clinic and they said to bring her in since she was so young. We went to the health clinic and they checked her out. She did have a fever but they couldn't figure out why so they decided to take a urine sample to see if she had a bladder infection or something of the like. How do you get a urine sample from a baby? A catheter. Poor thing. She was so brave even though it was a lot more difficult than the nurses had anticipated. Turns out she didn't have anything and they decided that it must have just been teething.

Recent doctor story:

On Friday night Evette's elbow got pulled [nursemaid's elbow]. DO NOT lift babies up just by their arms until they are way older. aughh.... After lots of crying from both Evette and I and a rush to an after hours clinic they fixed her right up. Oh man, I thought I was going to puke - couldn't stand to see my baby girl in so much pain. She couldn't move her arm and she was trying to be so brave.... Poor baby girl. She's all good now and it didn't slow her down one bit but it sure did give me a scare. I thought all of her fingers were going to fall off or we'd have to get her arm amputated, or whatever else my terrified mind was coming up with. Thanks to the husband for being my rock of sanity and taking care of his girls.

Cute sleepy baby.

{Yes, I love technology, but not as much as you, you see...}

Even though the husband travels we can still chat face to face thanks to the wonderful world of technology... always and forever.

As you can tell, we have very serious conversations.

{Our House}

We haven't posted any pictures of our new house yet... for shame. Whenever I have thought about taking pictures my house was a mess and whenever my house was clean I was too worn out from cleaning to get up and take pictures. See the predicament? Just kidding... sorta.

This is our front room.

 Dining Room

 Living Room

 Other half of the living room

 Kitchen

 Our bedroom

 Guest room/Craft room

 Evette's Bedroom

We love our house. It is the perfect size for us and it has a lot of character. It has some issues so we would never buy it, but it's a good starting point for now. It's about 3 times the size of our last place so I feel like we're living large now [it does take longer to clean, though :) ]. I love it. It feels like our home. We love our neighborhood and how close we are to everything we could need. Love it. So blessed.

{Sunday School Party}

We teach the 16-18 year old Sunday school class. They are the best. Seriously love them to pieces.

We had them over on Friday night for a little party. We had burgers and then played games all night.

These guys are so much fun and we love being able to teach them and learn from them as well :) Love these guys.