July In a Nutshell

Instead of blogging, we've been out living! Here's what we've been doing (well some of it anyway):

Future Botanist in the making. Ella continues to say that she wants to be a botanist when she grows up and loves to be in the garden. Now if we could just teach her more about weeding...

Lots of love & playing with next door neighbor friend, Jason

camping out in the front yard during play time

Oh yeah, Dan finished his mural!

Cul-de-sac of Fire

a pyromaniac's dream

hanging out by mom

purdy girl

nothing survived

Christy's b-day Dinner @ Settebello

The food was A-mazing

Still craving that focaccia

and the pizza too

Birthday Breakfast at Eggs in the City

b-day dessert courtesy of our awesome server

beauty shop at Grandma's

Bake Sale--yum. (and lots of work for Mom!)

Fishing Trip-Necessities Only

Reggie's Heaven

Ella caught the first fish!

But then cried when she realized it was going to be dinner

Ella's Museum Gift Shop Grand Opening

Notice that everything can be played with and/or touched. Isn't that awesome?!