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Hello Friends and Family. There are a lot of pictures this month due to lots of activity. Summer does that to families. As well as I had some other people's photos that I wanted to add to the blog as well. I'm sure you'll still enjoy the blog, it might just take you a min to get through all the awesome photos. :)

Alex and Evan watching the steam tractors at G&G's 70th - Photo by Clara Wade

The boys watching the shower of sparks - Photo by Clara Wade

Wii time at the Bakers with the Wades. Always a good time.

Alex and Evan working on some coloring. Something rare in our house, I don't leave things that can mark up the walls laying around.

Evan moved up in the bed world, he is now no longer boxed in by 4 sides. He does fall out of bed from time to time, Alex comes in and tells me in the middle of the night when he does. But the funny thing is Evan doesn't seem to wake up, he just falls out and falls back asleep on the floor. :)

They are even more cute playing with hats on.

Shawn with Eliza. Getting in her baby time while she can.

Eliza LOVES to stand. All. The. Time.

A photo showing Clayton's toe is size of Eliza's foot.

Smiles mostly all around.

Picking raspberries while they can.

The departing photo of the Wades with the kids. Always hard to see them go.

Alex showing Eliza how the jumper works. Such a great helpful big brother.

Eliza and I had a girls weekend at Grandma Jodi's lake house. It's amazing how much stuff you need to take with you for a baby.

Even more stuff in the back seat with her.

Dad visited with us the first night at the lake house. He enjoyed hanging out with us girls.

We got to visit with the Bushaw family while we were out there. I got to eat 6 of Jessica's doughnuts, they were all so yummy. Her apple fritters were AWESOME!

Mike's new car has never been this dirty, got to love the country. I got him a car wash before returning it.

Emily came out and spent an evening with Eliza and me. Always good to see her.

My wonderful family. Alex I think wants to have one more family member.

Horse rides at Meijer.

Hugs for Eliza. What great brothers.

I finally dragged the water table out of the basement and the baby pool (which is tiny I found out) out of the garage for the boys to play with.

Washing the mustang.

Eliza's first bow. She looks so sweet.

Evan maxing and relaxing waiting for Alex to be done with swim class eating his snacks.

Dad came to visit while Jodi was traveling and we got this cute picture of him with the kids.

Boys got hair cuts. All cleaned up and cooler for summer.

Eliza at her 4 month appointment. She's tall, good weight, and average head.

I showed Evan he could put raspberries on his fingers and eat them, he was very excited. He does it all the time now. I'm glad i have one kid that likes them as much as I do.

Finally made it to DQ this summer.

Evan gets brain freezes really easy, so soft serve is better for this little guy.

Reading at night with Daddy.

Mike and Alex will be traveling to England this fall so we needed to get Alex his passport, but the line was taking forever. So the boys entertained themselves by running up and down the hallway waiting for us go to in. Alex said when we drove into the parking lot of the USPS "Wow, all these people are traveling to England?"

Alex showing Eliza how the camera works.

Eliza at her baptism

We took the boys to airtime, and the boys LOVED it. I'm going to go back in the fall when there aren't so many people, and hopefully there isn't hip hop playing in the background.

Weeeee!!

Eliza has joined us at the table. She loves watching us eat. She's so curious.

What do the boys do when you give them a big play structure? Play with sticks and rocks.

My beautiful baby girl

Evan got his head stuck in the chairs at swim class. Grandpa was giving him some comfort after freeing his head. So thankful I have help at swim.

Alex and Grandpa at lunch after swim.

All of the kids watching TV. Just thought it was cute with Eliza looking as well.

Eliza's first shoes.

The boys helping me with the garden.

Walking baby

Evan did not want to be in the swings this day. :)

We got the walker out of the basement and the boys are showing her how everything works. She actually moves it around a bit on her own.

Evan's first movie, Angry Birds. Emagine Theaters offers free movies for kids during the summer and we all got in for $4! Pretty nice if I do say so myself.

We got Alex a new bike this month. The boys had to try it out so we went out in our PJ's. The boys loved it. Evan has even started to pedal his bike. Very exciting!

Evan hanging out with sister.

Alex loves his Hawaiian shirts, he picked this himself and he was so excited!

Lost in thought

We had a cul-de-sac party at our house and we got the perfect day. We have 3 new families on our street so we thought it would be nice to meet them, and get to know the other people we haven't really met in last 5.5 years. 3 other families joined us and we had a wonderful evening.

Evan put his kitty to sleep in the swing while I was showering. I came out of the shower and Evan was "shhhhing" me so I wouldn't wake up the cat.

We are now members at Greenfield Village and we all enjoyed riding the train.

We even got some friends to join us.

The boys also got a power wheel this month. Evan crashed into a tree the first time out, and my car the second time out, but he's learning. His issue is when he hits something he thinks flooring it is the way to stop the car.