Hot Summer!

This is from last month...but it is a good representation of what we have been doing a lot this summer...trying to stay cool.

Lake Chelan

We had a great time in Lake Chelan with the Willis side of the family! I forgot to bring our camera down to the water, and to most other things that we did, but I remembered to bring it to the rodeo! Here are a couple from the house and a couple from the rodeo.

Checking out the bulls.

Playing.

Watching the rodeo

The week started with little boys stripping off their clothes and playing in the mud.

Raven was very excited to have her cousins to play with all week!

Lake Geneva

We had a great time with family over the weekend of the 4th! It was fun seeing everyone! Raven learned a couple words while we where there, one of which is "no." Maybe there were too many dogs getting into trouble :)



Lydia helped Raven practice her walking on the path at the lake! About a week later she started to do it on her own! We are in for a real treat....

Cousins and more cousins!




Raven and Great-Grandma T

Raven and Great-Aunty Grace

Uncle J and Aunty Sam down the street from their apartment.

News Flash!

This morning we were able to see our baby # 2! Here are some pics of our baby GIRL!

I think she moves as much if not more than Raven did. It was hard to get a good pic because she kept rolling around. After the ultrasound we went to see the doctor to hear the heartbeat and she had a hard time finding it because the baby was moving around and kicking...we are in for a real treat come November :)

sleeeeeepy

In the midst of church nursery chaos, Raven got very sleepy :)

Swim Lessons

Matt helped with Raven's swim lesson last week. She was having a hard day after getting her 1 year shots, but she is growing to love the water one day at a time. I'm hoping she'll be a swimmer like her mommy :)

Birthday girl!

We had a great week celebrating Raven's birthday! In the morning she played guitar with daddy and opened her new shopping cart! She is really into putting things in, and taking things out...and we are trying to get her to walk more. So, she likes the gift :)
Later that day we went to the zoo with some cousins! Raven loved seeing all the animals! She would point and say, "Oooooo." (We saw the elephants and gorrillas in these pics)

Later in the afternoon, Raven was able to play with her favorite neighbors! She is always standing on the deck yelling over to these kiddos, despirately trying to get their attention :) Sometimes they come over to play and push her in her new swing from Grandma T!

The next pic is of Raven opening a gift with Grandma. It has been very hot here...can you tell by Raven's crazy hair?

The rest of the pics are from her party this past Saturday. She didn't really like the cake. She picked off the polka-dots and tried to put them on the table. She made a really funny face every time she got frosting in her mouth, and then she ended up feeding it to me - I didn't mind! :)

Overall, it was a really fun party...lots of friends and family!