July

I am going to try to do a quick fast recap of the year and continue along my merry way with this blog. I'm bummed I have let this go but we pick up and keep on moving. So July was mainly filled with our normal Okoboji trip. The 4th of July we were lucky enough to get invited to Presley's Bff's house and enjoy their pool. It was really nice and so much fun to hang out with them.

We spent a day at the ninja gym....the girls love it and get braver every time we go. Piper will climb the warp wall 300 times just to the sam wall as her sister....and she got it. It is awesome that she doesn't give up and to see that smile on her face when she makes it up, makes me happy!

 We spent an evening at Smash Park, they girls loves the foosball table!

 Then Spirit Lake, we spent Saturday thru Wednesday there b/c Steve was so busy at work that he couldn't get away for the whole week, but we had a great time and did so many things.

We had a surprise 80th birthday party for Jerry! So much thought and planning went into this party and he was happy, shocked and also even shed a few tears when he got his present of 2 tickets to go to New York in September for him and Kathy, to see Steve's half sister Diane. He was blown away and really moved! It was very nice to see!

 Jerry has a really bad tattoo of his name on his arm from when he was in the Army, so everyone else decided to 'tattoo' their names on their arms also!

 This smile. Little did I know that this would be the last picture that I took of our nephew Austin.

 The whole Goodrich gang!

 The Goodrich grandkids.

Ava and Presley always want to do a 'scavenger hunt', well this year it included one of them holding a frog. I knew Presley would never do it but Ava sucked it up and crossed it off their list!

 We usually spend a couple hours at the splash park, which they love!

We decided to have 'white trash' day...OMG. It was SO much fun! Definitely something different that we all enjoyed...we all headed to the Barefoot Bar this way also!

After Okoboji Presley spent a week doing Living History Farms camp. This was her 2nd year doing it and she does have fun learning about different things, so I'm glad she has enjoyed it.
Then after that she spent a week with her Bff Zoey in the Ozarks. It was SO hard to have her gone for a whole week. It was her first time being away from us that long. Zoey's family is very good to her and I think they push her to try new things and have fun!! She had her phone so she was able to text and call us when she wanted/needed. And her parents sent us so many pictures and videos of them tubing and jumping off of cliffs.....so fun for her!

I have so many pictures that I was going to download onto this...but baby steps. I just need to be happy that I have a July post at all!