July 2019

Hi all!  I'm posting (count 'em) 50 pics for the month of July.  Can you tell I'm off of work & we had a chance to enjoy the outdoors???

  Here's a pic of Presley and Uncle Jeff enjoying a game of Cornhole at our 4th of July party.

  Dylan was selected as a Columbia Little League All-Star.  Here's my little baseball stud in action.

  Here's Presley and her small group at Vacation Bible X-treme

  Here's a pic of her at the VBX Wrap Up Sunday Performance at Real Life Church.  After learning more about Jesus during a week of mornings, this church invites families to their service to showcase how the children spent the week.  She made a new friend & loved performing on stage.

  After that service, there is a BBQ for everyone and my Bestie snapped this fabulous pic of the kids.

  While Presley spent the mornings at VBX for a week, Dylan was enjoying another basketball camp at Union High School.

 On the last day of VBX we all decided to try Starbuck's new Frappucino called the "Tye Dye."  Once we heard it tasted like banana milk, Dylan and I opted out & had our standard favorites.

To celebrate my birthday, me and some friends hit a pub and enjoyed some beers.

The next week, Presley attended our own chuch's Day Camp and Dylan and I served.  The theme was "Power Up" which had a retro 80's video game theme and we loved dressing the part.  I worked in the Snacks department and Dylan was an Assistant Group Leader for the K-1st graders.  He was kept busy all week and I got too many numerous glowing reports from other volunteers about him.  

  Presley loves joining Bethany each year at camp.

 Day Camp always treats us to the best breakfasts before heading out for the day.

This month's Hangtime with Presley was playing games at Leonardo's Pizzeria which was so awesome.

On Thursday of this crazy, busy week, Maddox joined (what we jokingly call) his "other family" the Denbo's on a road trip down to Bandon for a long weekend.  He stayed near a beautiful lake home and played games, walked the town and soaked up a bunch of time with his best buddy.

The following week was very busy as well considering it was the ONLY week of the summer we had to enjoy outdoors.

Monday we tried out Wilson Pool in SW Portland and it was absolutely fabulous!  While the slide was out of commission, we enjoyed the diving board, deep end, lazy river and water basketball.  We hit some traffic on the drive home, but everyone came home happy and sunburned.  Dylan and Ayden made a pitstop at Youth Group for Mud Volleyball before finally calling it a day.

  

  On Tuesday, Presley had a craft day with Grandma which included a lunch.  She loves this one-on-one time and attention.

On Wednesday Dylan and I spent the day up at OHSU for his annual ABCD Study.  He had his bi-annual MRI and was asked a zillion questions and we treated ourselves to Henry's Tavern for dinner while we waited for traffic to die down.

On Thursday, Auntie Michele and Kaitlyn joined us and our friends, the Suva's out at Cottonwood Beach.  Sadly this would be our only visit to the river this summer, but we made the most of our day.

On Friday Daddy took the day off and treated us to the Island Cafe for lunch where the weather was absolutely perfect!

On Saturday, Dylan & I hit the road early and met some baseball families up at Wild Waves.  The weather was not very warm, but we closed the park down and got to ride a lot of our favorite rides a bunch of times.

On Monday we met the Suva's out at Lacamas Lake for a short hike before lunch.  Afterward there was lots of kayaking and jumping into the Lake from the small cliff by our picnic table or the bridge.

Here's a pic we took while waiting to see "Toy Story 4."  We took advantage of $5 Tuesdays and got the best Movie Parlor seat in the house!

The very last day of the month was spent saying "Goodbye."  I met Auntie Michele for lunch and left Presley with their family for the next 5 days.

The boys headed off to Bible Camp for the next 5 days.  This would be Dylan's first time at camp and he admitted he was homesick a lot.

Daddy and I left for Vegas for 5 days.  It was glorious!

That was a very busy month, but a ton of fun.  I miss July already!!!!