July 2013 InstaSample

I realized that I never posted my July instagram pictures....and I think it is because the site I normally use wouldn't let me download them. I have figured out that I think it was because I made my instagram account private...so I just needed to make it un-private to download the pictures and wah-lah.

So here are some old pictures from July. For my own sake of course. These are completely out of order, but who cares. Sorry for any repeats that have already been posted on the blog.

24th of July at the Playmill in West Yellowstone. yes, please!

And floating the Snake River to Grandma's house. Extra yes please!!

Florinda learning to "float" at the pool! Loving it.

Tribute to Grandpa Maughan the day he died. So sad that we didn't take any pictures the week before when we saw him. 

Neighborhood ice cream social. We have great neighbors!

Sad girl, but we are showing were she lost another tooth!

Uncle Devin and a sad, sad Brylee

Outing in Salt Lake with my good friend Jill. She is such a trooper to put up with me and my kiddos.

Garden progress! YUM!

Two carts were necessary for our 4th of July BBQ prep. Gotta love that.

Remembering a year before when we were sealed. 

homemade donuts by us. Yum.

This appears to be a really random picture, but it has a great story. I will copy and paste here from Instagram so I get it right: Now don't judge and don't bring up the dumpster story (because I know you will be tempted to), but here is the sad mannequin story. Jill and I were walking through Nordstrom when I happened to run into that black empty box back there with the stroller (it was at one point holding a very nicely dressed mannequin). As if in slow motion, the mannequin tipped off and landed face first on the floor. From across the room, another customer shouted, "mannequin down!" (thank you, sir) and two employees came running. As they tried to lift the mannequin off the ground, it snapped in half and left it's poor bum exposed on the floor. I wish I could say that I was appropriately apologetic, but the truth is that I was laughing so hard I was crying. We didn't have the presence of mind to take a picture of the poor, broken mannequin before it was hauled off, but this will do. #addthistomylistofaccomplishments #baddriver #mannequindown! #poorlonelybox #missingitsmannequin #sorrynordstrom #thisisanovel

I love it when I get invited to see sweet little babies sealed to their parents. I got to attend one such sealing in July and it was beautiful. 

Check out those artistic skills! For my play therapy class in the summer, we had to draw a picture of our family of origin and there were two rules: No stick figures and everyone had to be doing something. Lovely, just lovely, I know!

4th of July greatness

Look, Flor is wearing earrings!

Such a poser...

My two girls. Hallie has grown a lot in the past year and Flor, well, she likes to stay the same. :)

Jace is quite the ham-- I remember that this particular day, he got upset with a lady at the store who complimented Hallie's dress, so he said, "shorts, shorts!" over and over to her until she complimented his shorts, too. 

Next up, August.