Anyway, as I was saying, a lot happened since I last wrote. First of all, we had 4th of July which was a blast! In the morning, our ward had a 4th of July pancake breakfast. Eric had to work, but I took the kiddos and Levi had a blast. One of our ward members brought his high powered air pump and we made paper rockets and shot them off. Levi loved the rockets! He was simultaneously nervous and excited. He wouldn't let go of my hand and stayed super close to me when we were by the launcher but he would excitedly count 1-10 (he didn't really get the idea of stopping at 3) and then yell "blastoff!" and clap his hands excitedly.
Levi with one of his rockets (he did the coloring, I did the assembly)
I made my third annual Flag fruit "pizza" Mmmm it's so good!
So yeah, 4th of July happened. Then the next week Eric's parents and my parents and Eric and Natachia came into town for Emery's baby blessing! It was so great to have everyone here! Saturday morning we all went berry picking and got a TON of blueberries, marionberries and raspberries. Levi was in heaven and probably ate as many as he put in the bucket! And now I have a bunch of berries in my freezer and a ton of super delicious recipes pinned to make with them including some dark chocolate raspberry brownies that I am going to make later today and that already have me drooling haha.
Can you tell which bucket is Levi's? Haha
I actually should have taken this picture after we got home because Levi ate almost a whole pint of marionberries and blueberries in the car and he got soooo much more messy than this! Haha he looked a little like the joker from batman only not scary, just adorable!
Sunday the temperature outside was supposed to get up to 100 degrees so on Saturday I had a mini panic attack that my kids were going to get heatstroke and die. Like seriously, I was legitimately worried about all of us in our third floor unairconditioned apartment. But thankfully, one of Eric's co-workers gave us a window unit and Eric and his wonderful dad stayed up way late on Saturday night installing it for us and it has been a miracle. Oh my goodness it is so nice to have!!
Sunday was Emery's baby blessing and it was so beautiful. I really felt the Spirit and I could tell that Eric was really listening to the Spirit and the things he was blessing Emery with were what Heavenly Father wanted to bless her with. He blessed her with the gift of faith, the gift of love for those around her and the gift of being able to communicate that love to others well. He also blessed her to be a strength and a support to me and Eric. And with all the sweet smiles she has already been showering us with and the patience she shows with us, I know that's true. I had more than one person come up to me on that Sunday and tell me to thank Eric for listening to the Spirit and giving such a beautiful blessing. It was really wonderful.
Carma made Emery's blessing dress for her and she looked so cute in it!
Everyone together at the church
I love the way Emery is just looking at Nona in this picture like she is talking to her!
While the family was here, I really appreciated the time everyone took to spend time with my kids. Papi especially made a point to take Levi and spend some quality one-on-one time with him. Papi and Nona bought Levi some luggage of his own (he was soooo excited) and Papi took Levi and his luggage to ride on the train! Levi LOVED it. He also took Levi to a splash pad and took him to the carwash and they washed my car for me! It was so great and I love that Levi will have those great memories of when Papi and Nona came to visit.
Levi is so excited to have new luggage all his own.
Riding the Wes with Papi!
Splash pad shenanigans!
So yeah, that's been our month so far! Here are some more pictures of the cute little ones who fill my days!
Love this smile for brother's kisses!
She is just so stinking cute!
Sometimes when it's super hot outside but we need to get out of the house, I just take the kids to Cabelas. I wear baby girl and she sleeps and Levi has fun running around and playing with the pop guns and looking at the big fish. And I just enjoy the really good air conditioning haha.
Milk drunk smiles
Levi loves to "help" in the kitchen!
Emery really likes to lay on her playmat. She is much more content there by herself than Levi ever was I feel like!
Two Thursdays ago it was pay-your-age day at Build A Bear. I had originally planned on going, but it turned out the crowds were insane. My friend Shalece got to the mall before I did and told me the line was ridiculous. But we decided to go to the mall anyway and not bother with the line but instead just give Levi and Lincoln the chance to run around, play in the play area and ride the escalator together. So we did and Levi had a blast! But I honestly have never seen that many people and especially kids at the mall before though! It was crazy.
On Thursday evenings down in Wilsonville there's this awesome little farmer's market at a little park with a splash pad. Eric and I like to take the kids down there and Emery hangs out on the blanket and makes cute faces at me while Levi runs around in the water and we all eat delicious local produce and food offerings. It's my happy place.
Soo sweet!
One of the days last week I took the kids up to the children's museum. Levi is recently really into putting on the hats as he plays in each of the areas. It's so cute.
He also likes to sing and dance on the little stage they have there. I think he is imitating Coco which is one of his favorite movies right now.
Levi is just very two right now. One of the days last week he tried to flush some toys, dumped two cups of flour all over my kitchen and played in it while I was in the back with baby girl, dumped out a full cup of juice and another one of milk, and picked the last of my flowers off of my plants outside. Heaven help me! Haha.
Levi and his friend Liam in Liam's toy truck.
Sometimes Emery wakes up early from her nap because of gas (or because she pooped) and then she has a hard time going back to sleep. So when that happens, we do a lot of snuggling on the couch.
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