The rest of July 2011 ;)

July was a BUSY month for us! Haha, a lot has happened. I made a few posts this month in order to cover all of what happened. We had 3 family reunions (They all have their own post) and we've been busy with getting things ready for second crop which happened at the end of the month. We love second crop because it's only a couple weeks and this time around it only lasted about a week and a half! Woo hoo!!!!!

For the 24th we went out to New Castle. It has become a tradition for us. Travis and I started doing it when we were dating and have just kept going every year. They have a very, very small parade. It is so small that it runs up Main St, turns around, and comes back down. :) They throw candy for the kids, it's a lot of fun. This year it was Grandma Laub, Kevin, Sara, Samantha, Derrick, KayDee, Mandy, Dani, Travis, and me. We missed Grandma in this picture. Grandpa was in the parade pulling a float with his truck. :)
After the Ipson reunion we had Tom, Natalie, Jaycee, Justin, Jacque, Rachel, Kevin, Sara, their kids, Mandy, and Whitney all over for dinner and most of them slept over. Dinner was AWESOME!!! Ribs, potatoes, salad (with awesome Ceaser dressing) rolls, honey butter, there may have acutally been more but I don't remember what else there was SO MUCH FOOD!!! Yummy!! So glad for all the great cooks in this family!

This is an adorable picture of Dani and Jaycee. (It actually may be from August but it is so dang cute I just had to include it.)

This is also a picture from August. (Also just too cute to hold on to for later!) I have problems with my sciatic nerve from time to time and I was down for a few days. Dani snuck into my spot more than once when I ran to the bathroom. She is so cute!!! How happy is she? Haha
This just cracked me up! She started sitting like this from time to time. She makes us laugh. Just wants to put her feet up when watching TV just like Mom and Dad!
Dani is also getting better at eating on her own. She still dumps half of it on her bib but she can work the spoon better and better. About 50% of the time it ends up in her mouth right side up. :) (It's usually empty...) She just loves to do everything all by herself like a big girl! Little Miss Independant!

We've been very blessed in the last month. We feel very grateful for the oportunities that have come our way and for the time we get to spend together as a family. We are so so blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives and look forward to more oportunitites to make more memories with all our friends and family! :)