Party for Ailia

Lexi got together with the younger girls to celebrate Ailia's birthday. She celebrated Ailia's big sister's birthday on Tuesday with the older girls. I guess swim birthday celebrations with church friends is the theme for this week. What a great way to enjoy summer!

Sister Hickman made a vanilla bean cake - probably one of the best cakes I have ever had. Yum!!!

4th of July

It was a crazy rain kind of day, but fortunately, it cleared up about 5:30 pm. We joined a big gathering at a friend's house. Everyone brought food to share. The kids went swimming and jumped on the trampoline. Later, we went out to the cul-de-sac to watch fireworks. It was an amazing amount of fireworks. A few even tipped and shot out into the audience making the show quite a heart racing experience.  

Party for Alyana

For the church young women's activity tonight, they had a birthday celebration for Alyana. These girls have so much fun getting together. They went swimming and then had yummy Bundt cake. Alyana's dad recently passed away, so she definitely needed a pick-me-up. It is great to see them all together and smiling. 

Cinco Water Park

We met our friends at the local water park this evening. I ordered pizzas and we had dinner there too. It was a great end of the day.

Swimming

We met with friends at the pool today. Lexi had several friends there. 

Heather and Lexi

Mega Pool Party

About once a year, some of my high school friends get together (Bill, Erik, & Amy). Tonight, we gathered at Erik's house in Jersey Village. I love that the kids get a long so well. Lexi especially likes Kacy & Cole, Bill's twins that are 2 months older. They make it onto this blog quite a bit because they live near us. Next year, they'll even be in the same junior high.

The kids played in the pool, ate lots of food, and watched part of Goose Bumps. We headed out before the movie was over, because we were going up to Grandma & Papa's house for the night. Lexi and Miriam will be staying there. Miriam is headed home on Tuesday. Lexi is going to be taking ukulele lessons from Malcolm this week.

Miriam asking for a pineapple piece 

Cinco Water

Summer is coming and Miriam's time with us is winding down. We had a busy day planned, but I realized that we need to squeeze in a trip to our neighborhood water park. Miriam should get to enjoy as much warm weather time as possible before heading back to Montana (where it is still snowing). We will also be traveling a lot this summer and will not spend as much time at the water park as usual.

I happened to get a great video of Lexi doing a flip off of the diving board. Her hair might have been the best part.