Only a Week Later!!!

Here is the entire month of July's activities. Shockingly enough, I am posting again after just one week!

Benson's favorite sport is baseball! Every summer he has loved to play t-ball!

Waiting for candy at the Fourth of July parade! It was an awesome parade in Huntington.
We went to a fourth of July carnival with our friends! It was fun being there with friends, and it was free!
Julia at a neighborhood picnic! I wish I were as photogenic as her!
The kiddos were out riding bikes when I snapped this picture. They are such good friends!
Mom and CC cuddling up waiting for the city fireworks.
I thought this was a precious picture of Ben and Julia waiting for the fireworks!
We had a neighborhood firework party in our backyard just after the fourth.
One of the presents from Grandma Blau was a purple unicorn Pillow Pet! Julia loves it!
I thought the kids were pretty comical in this picture. They were all really trying hard to smile...
Here is Grandpa Blau relaxing at the museum on Julia's birthday. Partly because she loves the museum, and also because Uncle Lucas had not seen it before.
Julia wanted to go bowling. She loves that sport! It was more fun than usual, because we had Grandma, Grandpa, Kelly, Lucas, Liz and Courtney all down to visit!
Can you tell that she love strawberries? She wanted a strawberry flavored cake with strawberries on it!

Julia really wanted this guitar! I could not believe she turned five! Where did time go?
My goth girl!! I walked into the living room one day and she was sitting there looking like this! She got out my eye liner, and dolled herself up real cute!
Our playgroup went on a tour of the museum. It was a lot of fun! We had a guide who talked to us about all of the interesting things there.
Playing by the canal in Price!
Ben may not approve of the posting of this picture, but it is not his blog.... :) We went up to the canal up above the Price Hospital and spent the evening playing around. Ben jumped off the bank with a rope swing.
The kids really enjoyed wading in the canal and watching Ben swing into it.
I thought this was a great picture of Benson with the neat-o leaf that he found while we were playing in the canal.
Benson was in the middle of decorating his bike for the playgroup bike parade.
Cecilia at our playgroup bike parade. She is pretty excited to be able to ride Benson's old bike! She calls it her rocket. Julia rode her bike that is that size so much, that she wore a huge hole in the tire, and so we have been having CC ride Benson's.

Here are some pictures from Ben's 32nd birthday:
We had a rousing game of Bocce Ball to celebrate Ben's big day!
I made an ice cream cake roll thingy for Ben's birthday. We obviously could not fit 32 candles on the cake!! Ben is an old man!
At the end of Ben's birthday we did a few fireworks!

This is Benson at a friends birthday party! Wow! Benson's hair bleaches out in the summer a lot!

The next group of pictures were all taken throughout the week of our cities International Day celebration:
The kids had just finished having their faces painted in this picture. Julia had a heart. Benson had a spider web, and Cecilia had a butterfly.
The kids went down this inflatable slide together at the Kids Day activities for International Days. You can see all of their legs and and stuff all squished together.
Benson gave the old climbing wall a go!
Julia tried so hard to make it to the top! I was happy that she tried it.
My kids loved this activity that the Boy Scouts had set up! They made and decorated their own rockets and then launched them.
The last Boy Scout activity we did, was this rope bridge, and I was so impressed that Benson and Julia could walk all of the way across it! I don't know if I could have done it!
This is a picture of Benson with all of his loot from ONE parade...the International Days parade!!!! We had quite the mountain when we combined all of the kid's candy! Needless to say, we still have candy left.

If you actually made it to the end of this post you are an AMAZING friend/person!!