July

Let's see if I can finish July before the month of August is over.

We started the month with Bradley's birthday.  Poor guy, what with all of the uncertainty around job searching and interviewing and then waiting to hear about jobs I neglected his birthday a bit.  Usually when we plan our menus we let the kids pick their favorite meal but I forgot to ask him and I didn't get around to asking him about his cake and breakfast until just a few days before his birthday.

He requested Monkey Bread for breakfast.  This has been a staple for him for a couple years now so I should have been able to anticipate it.

He got a special package in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa and then he had to wait to open it.  I think that was the hardest part.

After several different theme choices I told Bradley he had to  come to a decision for his cake because I only had a couple days to make it.  so he said Lego Superman.  This was my interpretation.  At first he wasn't really excited, apparently he wanted a cake that looked like a Lego Superman figure, but the longer he looked at it the better he liked it.  Good thing too, because a cake that looks like a Lego figure is a little beyond me.

Are you ready for the picture?

Because we slacked off and didn't let him pick a meal we took him to Red Robin.  Hopefully the rest of the kids don't say they just want to eat at Red Robin on their birthdays.

The lucky duck even got to sit by Alyssa at lunch.  I think we miss her the most.

Bradley got a bubble blower for his birthday and the kids love it.

One last super cool adventure in Colorado.  Brandon found out about a cool exhibit in Green Mountain Falls, a swing set that plays music while you swing.  The faster you swing the faster the music goes.  And the different swings are supposed to sound like different instruments.  The more swing moving the different the song sounds and if you can get the swings synchronized it sounded pretty cool.

Britton on the swings.

The big wide bases of the swings were nice.

It was pretty popular so you had to stand in line for a little while.

Looking so cool in her new sunglasses.

Grant loved it.

It was a pretty big structure, which was nice because the lines went pretty quickly waiting for the swings and everyone was pretty polite about it which was nice.  So worth the drive up the road.

The rest of the month of July was filled with finding a new place to live, wondering what to do since someone else was packing up our things (that was an experience) and saying goodby to friends.  Because we weren't packing all of our boxes I was able to finish a project for Alyssa, a blanket out of her swim t-shirts, that I had told her I could do back in June.  We tried to spend time with our friends and get the house all clean for our move.  We had a last swim with Alyssa and trip to the spray park.  We surprised some people in our ward when it finally got down to the week of our move.  The Primary gave me a giant bag of Lifesavers because I had subbed so many times this year.  Our ward was awesome and the ladies came in shifts to get the all the cleaning done.  We managed to get it all done and our keys turned in. And then we headed out and said goodby to Colorado Springs.