No vacation here!

Avery is giving me a round of applause for finally sitting down to update the blog. So get ready, it's long! No vacations in our house this summer. Staycation! We have decided to put our house on the market and build our dream home. Cross your fingers with us for it to sell! I guess that's why it's a month between posts. I spend all my free time working and cleaning... and chasing two little ones! So, here is my attempt to catch you up on our summer.

My grandmother passed away, the week after Mother's Day and will be dearly missed. Parker keeps saying he wants to "go to Heaven to see Mimi and Jesus." I told him he's not allowed to go until long after I am gone, but so sweet! Here she is meeting him for the first time.

Parker misses school but has started swim lessons. He was such a little fish. He loved going every day. Mommy got a bit tired by day 8!

Parker is so grown up that we have added some chores to his list. He is responsible for mowing the yard and watering the flowers. :)

We had a wonderful visit with out nieces, Hannah and Micaela. Micaela was not in this picture though.

Avery is crawling... EVERYWHERE and getting into EVERYTHING! She wants to do everything that big brother is doing and eat everything that big brother is eating. She is certainly going to be our mischievous child!

That grin cracks me up! She had just finished putting half the food in her mouth and half on my wood floors.

She loves to play hide and seek with Parker. This is her "you found me" face!

She is pulling to standing in her bed. She is almost able to do it on furniture too. Love those butts!

Here she is crawling. Hard to get the fast action shot, but she is quick!

Father's Day came and went without a huge celebration. My dad is in Bali on a mission trip. Jared's dad is in Florida. So, I made Jared breakfast, gave him presents and took him to the movies for a date. Even though we didn't do a lot that day... let me just tell you how much I love this man. Jared is the best dad! He wants to be home with his kids as much as possible, he loves to read bedtime stories, he melts for his daughter's grins, and he sets a good example of the kind of man I want Parker to be and the kind of man I want Avery to marry! We love our daddy!