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.  

Silly Hair

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

Prince Fuzzington III

We're dog sitting starting today. Sadly, a family that we know lost their dad. They headed to Utah for the funeral and we're watching their dog, Prince Fuzzington III. The name makes me laugh. It is a 7 month old malti-poo. 

Astros Game

We were given free tickets to the Astros game tonight. It was Mormon Helping Hands night. We saw lots of friends from church there. We were near the Griffeths, so Lexi switched seats with their son, Jared. He sat by Jordan and me. Lexi sat by them. It was a fantastic game. We were loosing the whole game until the bottom of the ninth. It was 4 to 2. The bases were loaded and then a hit that scored a double and like that we won.

Celebrating the big win

Fireworks and fun