July in New Mexico brings in our monsoon season – so we’ve been waiting and praying for a lot of rain to help cool things off. Those of y’all from other parts of the country have no idea what this is, but our house is cooled with an evaporative cooler (“swamp cooler” if you want to sound like a local), so basically, the humidity level in my house can rival Disney World some days. We’ve discovered that Eisley girl has curly hair! 😉

We got the yard to livable, safe-for-the-kids-condition and then put things on hold for a bit, so it’s still not real pretty but it’s totally functional for the kids to dig and run and play. Nathan found a bunch of tall grass growing under their slide and for whatever reason, decided to put one in his mouth and came walking up telling us he was a farmer. His two shadows were right behind him. 😉

I love this because I totally would have done this as a kid – we bought this box of Panda cookies on sale at Costco and each little cookie has a different image on it of a Panda playing all kinds of sports, and then on the side, there’s a list of all 35-ish sports. The boys have been circling off the ones we’ve gotten on the box so they can keep track of all the ones we’ve seen. Ha!

Bike ride in the blazing heat. They lasted about 30 minutes. 😉

Long story, so not to get into too many details, but we got some news this last week that was just very, very sad regarding something Jon and I have been hoping and praying for for a long time. That night, the whole in-town family came along to dinner with us and it was just such a wonderful time. So thankful for all of them.

The boys went to pick up some stuff with Jon and Eisley was still asleep, so when she woke up, we had a little Mom and Daughter time with some kettle corn. Eisley loves to mess around with the different filters. 😉

And then, we ended the week celebrating our new favorite two-year-old!! I cannot believe our little Gabriel is already two – I feel like we were just sleeping in the hospital waiting room, waiting for him to finally come. Love our little buddy.

And speaking of birthdays, tomorrow is a certain someone’s SEVENTH birthday. Where does the time go??