Finishing up July

I know that I posted some of these on facebook, but I wanted to have them on the blog for our family journal. July was such a fun month because Mike was on community medicine, a very easy month. It was a nice transition into residency. The kids are really loving it here. There is too much to do; I can't get it all done this first summer, which is such a nice problem to have. 

Sam is really starting to like books!! He hass to have a book to look at in the car. His favorites are ones about farm animals, dogs, dogs playing with balls, books that you sing along with (the wheels on the bus book), starting to get into dinosaurs and trains.

 One of our favorite parks to go to is Beus Pond. It has a fun playground and a path around the pond that is surrounded by a forest. We will bring our bread ends to feed the ducks and lately, we have been able to pick blackberries for jam.

An outing is not complete with snacks. I swear that is all they want to do when we go to the park. 

Chasing the butterflies at the pond. I just love how girly she is. She wants to be a fairy, loves to shoe off all her new ballet moves, and picks everyone flowers to wear behind their ears.

Having a fun backyard has been the best thing for the kids. We are out there everyday making up new games and imaginary stories (usually about Periwinkle and Tinkerbell fighting the pirates and freeing the other captured fairies).

After the first time of picking blackberries, Maggie wanted to make a blackberry pie. She was so excited to try it, but ended up not liking it so much. The next time we made jam, which she gobbled up.

Oh the neighbor girls. These were our first friends here and have spent many evenings playing with them. Since then, we have found some great kids throughout the neighborhood that we like to get together with. 

On one of the Saturdays, we went up to the Cabin to help pull out all the old carpet. It was suppose to be a work day, but we definitely had our share of fun.

Mike's sister just got Razors, which is a mix between a jeep and a four wheeler. It was really fun driving it to Lily Lake.

I wouldn't say that our kids liked it, but they weren't crying. It was really windy and bumpy for them.

 I wanted to post this picture for Nicole because on the way back from the Lake, there were hundreds of sheep in the road. I had to keep honking the horn just so I could pass through.

The biggest news of July is that was got a dog. Mowgli is a Jack Russel Terrier, think Wishbone, but has a 1/4 yorkie in him which is where her got the black and brown color. He has been wonderful. We are still working on getting house trained, but honestly he is outside most of the time, that it is hard to be strict about that. Maggie absolutely adores him and calls him her baby. She drag him all over the house, singing him songs,and "rocking him to sleep".