Life Lately: July 2019!!

My birthday was on July 1st. and we celebrated like we do every year-- with Mom making me her famous homemade lasanga! It never gets old. She's the best cook ever. And she made me a chocolate cake this year, too. She says I am spoiled, but I don't think so ;) 

I made the kids go to the movies to see Toy Story 4 with me. I said it was my birthday so I got to choose! ;) I really loved the movie! I especially loved FORKY! He was hilarious! And I was totally tearing up at the end! Arnold was mad at the ending. But I told him things always have to change! 

Then Arnold and the kids took me to one of my fave restaurants for dinner-- Dos Amigos! It's mexican food and caleb usually ends up getting a hamburger there, haha. But I seriously love their food! Arnold always argues with me and says El Paso is better, but I don't agree! 

Arnold's work had a company night at the local Crawdads baseball game! They do the nicest things for famlies every once in awhile, and I am very grateful for them being so family-oriented. We all got into the game free, then they had hotdogs, hamburgers and BBQ for dinner! The kids talked me into some Dippin Dots also of course! It was 90 degrees that night, so we were all sweating, and didn't stay until the end of the game. But we had fun!!

The girls had to pose with Conrad the Crawdad! ;) 

We love to go to this big park near our house, and one day when Brooke was at a friend's house I took the other two to the park. They played for awhile and I read a little of my new book ;) We also took Watermelon freeze drinks from Taco Bell with us! yum! Rachel had a blast rolling down the grassy hill-- that girl is always dirty!! We played until a big storm came rolling in, then we ran to the car and went home! 

My parents are members of a country club and they get to go swimming, so my Dad is super sweet and takes the kids often this summer. The girls have even sweet talked their Pop Pop into his member number so they can go get treats like icecream bars and soft pretzels! They have his member number memorized.. just like I did when I was a kid!! haha!! ;) Pop Pop and Grandma sure do love their grandkids. I couldn't get through anything in life without their help. 

Miss Rachel has been into chewing gum a lot lately. She has a little gumball machine she keeps in her bedroom. One night she decided to get gum stuck in her hair when she rolled onto it in her bed. Arnold was so frustrated the next day and spent an hour combing through her hair. He got frustrated and started cutting her hair. I know now theres many ways to get gum out of hair, but oh well! He took Rachel to his moms house where she was able to give her a cute haircut and saved the day!!! Now we say no more gum for miss Rachel! At least not for awhile! :D

Arnold and I downloaded the BEST app for Rachel. It's called Bible for Kids. It is like a little map that takes her to daily bible stories, then it asks a question for her to answer, and has little activities to do, and she earns stars and moves along the board. The stories are colorful and animated and I LOVE it! I would recommend this app to any of my friends with school-age kids. Makes it so easy and fun to learn Bible stories.. even I enjoy listening with Rachel sometimes ;) 

The girls went to a birthday party at a friends' aunts house.. it was on a farm, and there was a creek, and lots of mud, and they got to go "tubing" and YES we are pretty county, especially Rachel with her cute little accent, but we love the little town we live in! ;)

On the same day the girls went to that bday party, Arnold and I took Caleb out for a day just with him. we went to see the LION KING movie. I had been wanting to see it for awhile. It was pretty good I guess, but didn't really live up to my expectations. I thought it was a little dark and a little boring in parts. But I did love the music! I used to run around singing "I Just Cant Wait to be King" from the cassette tape soundtrack when I was little! :D

Anyway, after we did that we went to shop to get Caleb's new school shoes. Where we find out he's now a MENS SIZE 8!!! Wow where did the time go?! He picked Under Armour again this year. I don't really mind spending the money on Caleb because he actually takes good care of his shoes!!! The girls are SO ROUGH on shoes!!!!!! 

Brooke ended out the month by going to Band camp. It was Mon-Friday at a highschool in our county, but it was FAR away from us, so I did SO MUCH driving that week! Oh well, it was worth it. I am happy she got some practice in this summer and will be ready to go on the first day of school. She said only 2 of east burke students were there this year other than her, but she ended up making some friends from other schools! Of course! She's my social butterfly ;)