Our July

Niagara Falls

I got this picture . . .

. . . if I promised to take this picture.

Lauren Summer - 3 months old

Well, one thing I have noticed about having three kids is any extra time I used to have to write on our blog or do scrapbooking is now GONE!  So here is July in a nutshell.  We went to Palmyra, New York and Niagara Falls over the 4th of July weekend.  It was only a two night vacation, but it really seemed like a week went by, when we got home.  Not that it wasn't fun, but it was a lot of driving and going from site to site in Palmyra.  Niagara Falls turned out great too.  I don't think we could have planned it better if we had known what we were doing.  We got there the night of the 4th of July and they had fireworks at the falls.  We also got the see the falls with all the pretty colored night lights shining on them.  The next day we got up and went down below where you can walk behind the falls.  It sounds cooler than it was to be behind the falls.  You really can't see anything but a huge misty wall of water.  But it was neat to go down to the bottom of the falls and be so close.  It's a lot of water.  Pretty amazing stuff. 

On July 23rd, Lauren made it to 3 months old.  She is still a great baby.  She is starting to want to be up where the action is.  She won't let me eat dinner with her at my feet in the rocker and everyone else up at the table.  I guess she can sense she is missing something.  But she is just getting cuter all the time.

The only other thing that has been significant about this month is the amazingly hot weather.  It was in the 90's and 100's for most of July - and it has only rained a handful of days this month.  The bad thing is that you add in the humidity to that kind of heat and it is just miserable.  Today is actually nice.  Still hot - but not humid.

The First of Many

Today Canon gave his first talk in Primary.  He was so excited all week.  When I told him we needed to write his talk, he told me that he wanted to do it all by himself.  I knew there was no way he was going to practice enough to memorize the whole thing, so I translated it into pictures.  I have to say - it was a masterpiece.  We've been practicing a couple times a day since Thursday and today was the big day.  He got up and gave his talk with a lot of enthusiasm in his voice.  As we neared the end of his talk his face was getting really red and he was squirming like he had to go to the bathroom.  I finally just asked him and he got down and went to the bathroom.  Seth told me I should have just let him finish, but I thought having an accident would have been a lot worse than an unfinished talk.  When he came back he asked if he was going to get to finish.  The wonderful Primary President let him get back up after they did singing time.  He got back up on the podium.  Wouldn't start until the microphone was on and said "Sorry I was late" and proceeded to finish his talk.  I really wish I could have video'd the talk.  But it does make me curious to see what he will do with his life.  What ever it will be, he will do it with confidence!

Lauren is 2 1/2 months!

I've been working on our blog and getting it into a book.  I realized how much I updated on Savana when she was a tiny baby.  (We didn't have our blog when Canon was tiny.)  I don't want Lauren to get lost in the crowd, so here it is.  Lauren is 2 1/2 months.  She is a fabulous baby.  She sleeps through the night!  What more can I ask for at this age.  Goes to bed a 10:00 p.m. and sleeps to 5:30 a.m. at least and often later.  She is also very content just sitting in her baby seat, as long as she can see us and what is going on.  I just wish I could say that I get enough sleep because of that, but Canon comes in once a night.  Usually it is to go to the bathroom, but the other night he just appeared at my bed and said he "just wanted to check on me."  Last night both Canon and Savana were afraid of the dark.  That is a new thing with Savana.  I think she learned it from Canon during her brief stay in his room.  She is back in her own room.  It just makes bed time easier and since she usually sleeps later than Canon - it makes mornings better too.  Savana actually slept until 10:30 a.m. this morning, but that is rare.   Usually she sleeps until 8:00 a.m. or so and Canon is up any where between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.  Wow, exciting stuff!  But this is life right now :)

Cousin EmiLee, Lauren and Savana