4th of July Fun and Other July Randomness

We had such a fun 4th of July this year despite not having any fireworks.  We have some friends from our ward that live on Buckley Air Force Base that invited us over for a swim and barbeque.  It was so much fun.  We started the day of with a new breakfast that I tried out.  We had these AMAZING crepes!  they were filled with a cream cheese and lemon cream and then we had strawberry compote and blueberry compote over them.  They were SO good!  Although next time I think I will make bacon to go with them.  :)

After a pure American lunch, PB&J, we went to our friends house on base.  They have a pool there so we started with a nice swim.  This was the second time we had taken Reed swimming and he enjoyed it SO much more the second time around.  We had issues keeping our hands on him because he wanted to go and swim on his own.  Boys.  The girls were so excited to get back into a pool.  They haven't been swimming for about 6 months now because of some issues with their swim school.  CJ was ESPECIALLY happy because she doesn't enjoy running through sprinklers as much as Avary does.  This was the first time CJ has gotten drenched this summer.  Sad. 

 

Anyway, after swimming we headed back to our friends house where we had hamburgers, potato salad, and fresh veggies.  Afterward, we dug into the dessert that I had made.  This dessert was something I hadn't had for years.  I kinda grew up on it.  It is something kinda like cheesecake, but it is made in a 9x13 and it bakes quicker.  It was so good.  We enjoyed some great talk and laughter.  It was really nice to just relax with some great people.

I made a cake for our piano teacher/friends baby shower this month.  This is her second baby and she is having another boy.  With her first baby I was going to make her shower cake and I got SUPER sick the day before her shower and I couldn't make it.  This time I was determined to make her baby shower cake.  About a week before her shower I sprained my right pinky really bad.  CJ was practicing piano and I lifted my hand to point to something on her page and the keys of the piano went between my ring finger and pinky and bent the pinky back and off to the side.  It hurts....bad, but I worked through it and with a TON of help from Spencer and my mom, I was able to get the cake done.



The top tier of this cake is pina colada and the bottom tier is applesauce spice cake with cream cheese icing,  She was SO happy with it.  I was SO happy that I was able to do this for her.  Spencer did the cute little fondant baby on top.  I have a GREAT husband.

For Family Home Evening this week Avary had the treat.  We had a lot of fruit that we needed to use so I kinda forced her to do a fruit pizza.  She did such an amazing job that we had to take a picture of it.



I think I might have some competition soon.  ;)  We found out not too soon after we ate it that CJ is allergic to raw kiwi.  After she ate her slice, her tongue started to itch.  I gave her some Benadryl and that helped her.  She feels pretty special right now because she is allergic to two things, penicillin and kiwi.  Avary was so funny.  After we determined that CJ was allergic to raw kiwi, Avary started complaining that her "neck was hot" and that she thinks she is allergic too.  I laughed and told her that the reason her neck was hot was because her hair was down and it was a hot day.  I told her to get a scrunchie so I could put her hair up and that fixed it.  She is such a silly little girl.  It tasted really good though!  Reed ESPECIALLY liked it.



Speaking of Reed, we have been trying this new thing with his naps.  He was starting to fight us when we would try to put him down for a nap and our pediatrician told us to just let him go until he crashes, so we have.  He has fallen asleep in the CUTEST ways!  He had slid off the Luv Sac in this one.



I LOVE how his arms and legs are in this one.



This next one is my favorite so far.



He had put his head on the pillow and was out in about a minute and had "crashed" on the sofa.  He is so stinkin' cute, sometimes I can't even stand it.  He is becoming our comic relief.  When we put the girls in time out we have them stand against a wall with their noses to the wall.  Reed has now started to go over to the wall when they are in time out and put his hands and nose on the wall standing next to them.  It is SO hard to stay serious when he whips around with a cheesy grin on his face to make us ALL laugh.  What a cutie.  We are going to have to find a different way of punishing him when the time comes because now he thinks it is funny.