Gloomy July Day Activities

The day after my birthday we had to take my car to the shop because a couple service lights kept coming on.  My mom met us there to loan us her car for the day.

We decided to drive south for some doughnuts...the very best doughnuts!

We had found mice in our garage back in February.  We cleaned it out and got rid of them.  I took my car in because I had random service lights going on/off.  My mechanic sent me this picture...that my friends is a mouse nest that was under my engine!!!!!  What?!?!  Even the mechanic couldn't believe it!  That is a huge fire hazard!  I feel lucky that my car stayed safe and that no mice ran under my feet while I was driving...eeeekkkk!

 Later that day it continued to rain so we went to the library to pick up some new books.  Piper likes to go to the library, talk really LOUD and pull all the books off the shelf, the opposite of appropriate library behavior.  This is her on the floor throwing a fit when I told her to stop throwing books.

She loves this horse at the library, he cheered her right up!

 The same rainy day, we found some boxes and the kids spent hours decorating and playing in them. Gosh I love the simplicity of these kids sometimes!

 They wanted to eat lunch in their boxes :).  Now that I am thinking about it, I think I already blogged about this...oh well, here it is again.

 One of our favorite books is The Day the Crayons Quit.  It would make a great Christmas gift if you have little ones in your home.  I can't find the link now but a blog I follow had some activities to go along with it.  We watched a YouTube video from Mister Rogers - it was all about how crayons were made.

Then we did lots of painting and coloring with different things.  

The girls and I spent a rainy Friday evening at a baby shower for a good family friend.  

And that's a wrap on gloomy July days.  

I'm baackkk...or at least for today ;)

2 months since my last post!  How did that happen??  We opened a business July 31st and life hasn't been the same since!  I plan on blogging all about it but need to catch on the rest of July first.  If you haven't heard about the store yet, which I am 99.9% sure all of you have, check it out at www.urbanairop.com.

I am finally blogging today because the kids and I tagged along with Adam to Big Cedar Lodge for his work trip.  Which means I can blog because I don't have a dirty house/grocery shopping/Urban Air staring me in the face :).  In the meantime, let's rewind to one of my favorite days of the year...my birthday!  Yes, I still love my birthday-even if I am inching into my mid 30's.

The major downfall about being backlogged on 2 months of blogging??  I have a hard time remembering the details of all the pictures I took!  Here's what I remember about my birthday...painters were at the house doing some touch up warranty work, it was gloomy and chilly (can't remember the last time I wore long sleeves and jeans on my birthday!), went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch, Cooper had a baseball game and we went to Chipotle for dinner afterwards with my parents.  Nothing glamorous but it was great to me!

 The day before my birthday I had sweet Pippi at the doc, she had an ear infection.  She kept pointing to all the animals and saying, "bug."

Then that evening we were in the basement with a tornado warning!  It was kind of scary especially since Adam wasn't home...however Brock made a pit stop at our house on his way home from work during the storm.  Thankfully no tornado here!

Pretty birthday flowers from Dennis and Joyce!  I had birthday flower arrangements from my mom and one from the kids that they did with Alli and Rusty but I can't find any pictures of them.

 Sitting in the car waiting to go into game.  Laney always has a bag/purse of some sort with a lot random crap inside it.

It was SuperHero day, so instead of their jerseys, the boys wore Super Hero shirts.

He loves to play baseball and I love to watch him!  He has loved this sport since he was hitting off the tee around 2/3 years old.

Grandpa and Grandma always there to support him!

 Adam's birthday treat to me was bathing all 3 kids and putting them to bed so I grabbed dessert and my book.  I loved that book but now I can't remember the title or who wrote it!

I can't remember the details but I ended up in bedtime duty due to meltdowns (not from Adam ;)).  Loved spending my day with these 3!

Maybe the best part of my day (sorry kids!) was that the Jayhawks were playing basketball in the Olympic games!!  It was the perfect nightcap to a great day.

4th of July!

We had a fun, fun, 4th of July!

We started off the day hanging out at home.  Grandma brought patriotic donuts for the kids!

Air guitar!  Adam found a Spotify station that played lots of our favorites from college...so we had a dance party and pulled out the air guitar.

Cooper was really happy about the patriotic pj pic ;).

We spent the afternoon at my parents eating and swimming.  Then we got to work, assembling parade flyers.  

The golf cart was decorated and ready to go!

Our parade helpers.  Our kids didn't want to ride, they wanted to catch candy instead.

Two of the most uncooperative picture subjects!

I love a good parade!

After the parade, Bryson and Tara hosted everyone before fireworks.

Again, I waited way too long in the day before getting a family pic.  The girls had matching rompers and swimsuits that I bought last year and I didn't get one stinking picture of them together in them, ugh!

We took the golf cart up to the Stilwell gas station to park and watch the firework show.

She LOVED the fireworks!

It was a great show!

She was asleep minutes after we left my parents, party on sister.

Pre and Post 4th of July!

I was going to post these pics with our 4th of July pics but then I realized that was A LOT of pictures so I split it up.

 A couple days before, we did some firework painting while Pippi napped.  

 We did one more easy craft...red, white, blue stars and paint in a baggie.

 Mix it all up, you will see the finished product on the next 4th of July post.  

We took the golf cart around the neighborhood.

Adam and the big kids cleaned up the golf cart so it would be ready for it's parade debut!

Sunday, post 4th of July...otherwise known as July 5th ;)

 We went to church on Sunday.  We didn't plan it but Laney and I both ended up in striped dresses representing the red, white and blue!

 Then Cooper realized he was in stripes too!

And so was Dad :)!

Laney didn't nap but it caught up to her watching cartoons later in the afternoon.  

 She rallied and we went outside to enjoy the weather.  We took the golf cart up to the baseball fields for Cooper to practice hitting.

 The girls and I had a dance party, Laney took her moves to the field...safety first with the helmet!

Seriously, she cracks me uP!