June: Speech, Celebrations and Celebrity Psychopaths.

Hi Family and Friends!

I've fallen behind.  And the fun and businness of July have almost distracted me from writting about the fun of June.  So here it goes. 

It's summer!  We've been busy feeding ducks, rolling in the grass, and eating icecream.  I'm happy to see so many lightining bugs in Michigan, though they usually come out after the boys are asleep.

Our garden.

Picking strawberries with friends. 

After thinking about it for too long, I finally took the plunge and cut my hair.

Before:  Sloppy bun every day, with a headband if I felt like being fancy. ;)

After:  Freedom!  Nearly everything is easier with short hair. And lately a few people have told me I look a lot like Emma Hill.

I've never been told that I look like any celebrity, ever.  So I had to look her up. She's so cute!  What a compliment.

And then I found out that she plays a psychopath murder, and people usually imagine her wielding an ax and looking like this.  

Oh well.  Can't win 'em all.

Father's Day!

Ira really wanted to make Anthony rainbow pancakes.  That's right.  When we eat food coloring, we really eat food coloring.

We're so lucky to have him.

The boys decorated Anthony a cake all by themselves.  Their first attempt at fondant. 

And after church we went kite flying.  Conditions were perfect.

Kite overload.  Sorry, couldn't just pick one.

We were thrilled to have a visit from the Applebees, my sister's family. 

Chillin' at the Henry Ford Village, watching a vintage baseball game reenactment.

The Applebee kids decided to do the Color Run with us, which was a blast. 

They ran the whole 5k!

And a few of us decided to check out the Ann Arbor Art Festival.  Kristen and I were cracking up.  We were dancing like crazy to this awesome kid's band remeniscent of They Might Be Giants, while Ira and Jonah looked like they were having their teeth pulled, and just wanted to go.

Here we are exploring some of U of M's campus.

We loved having them here.  Come back any time Applebees!

One of my dear friends just had her third child, but first boy.  So some of us, got together to throw her a babyshower.  This was, of course, before she gave birth.

Diaper Design contest.  That's right, I was in charge of games. :)

Muppet theme!  I wasn't in charge of food.  But I did help a little. 

And the sad news of June, is that our dear friends the Wendts moved.  

So Lame!  We're keeping our fingers crossed that they'll decide to move back to Michigan some day.

In other news: We've had Eliot assessed, and it looks like his speech is about a year behind.  The good news is that he's developmentally normal in every other way, and our time in Utah (more on that next entry) seemed to really boost his efforts in speech.  He's making progress!

Both Anthony and I beat our dietbets (his win and weight loss was much more impressive than mine), and he came in second at work for losing the most amount of weight.  

Happy Summering all.  Peace!