July

Ah, July. What a wonderful month! This year it brought the promise of the end of a hectic semester and the tantalizing hope of a new baby in our home. I had been having Braxton Hick's contractions since mid-May and was just sure that the baby would come a week early. 

On the 3rd we went to the Freedom Fire show with Chelsey and Cody. The band that played was a cover band for ABBA. It was pretty fun but man was it HOT!!! We were sitting facing the west and right about 8:30 I thought I was going to melt right into the bleachers! Finally it got dark and we had an amazing firework show. I had been prepping Bekah all day, letting her know that the fireworks were loud but safe...she still freaked out a bit. She kept pulling at me saying, "Should we hide?" She finally decided that Cody was a good protector and snuggled into his shoulder, peeking out now and then before hiding her face again. 

Poor little sweaty girl! But she did so great waiting for the fireworks.

Three patriotic girls. (And two boys in the bellies!)

On the fourth I took a picture of Bekah wearing my old night gown before dressing her in her flag shirt to go to the parade in Hyrum.

She loved that people threw candy to us from their cars and floats. She talked about the candy parade for weeks!

We were somewhat shocked that she didn't get scared by the sparklers since the fireworks had scared her so badly, but she loved them. When the firework show started that night she got scared again and hid her face in our blanket.

All the talk about Baby Xander coming any day got Bekah into baby mode. I couldn't find her one day and finally spotted her rocking her baby and singing to it! She's going to be a great big sister!

Whenever it's time to have a new baby, Garrett starts feeling like life is ending and has to pack in as much fun time as he can. So on the 19th til the 21st, he, Brett, Riley, Jack, Isaac, Jacob, Josh, and Kevin went on a backpacking trip to Red Castle. They had a great time and it got Garrett's wiggles out.  :)