Summer week 7

July is off to a busy start, and we are so glad that the weather is not as bad as it could be. 

Monday was the ususal walking/biking at the church.  No movie again this week...it was How to Train Your Dragon...and since we own it and watch it frequently I decided we could save $10 and stay home.

Tuesday we swam with our friends and had a blast :)

Wednesday was fun...it being the 4th we had Daddy home with us...we went to the Dawson's pool and had burgers with the Huntingtons who were house/dog sitting.  Then we went home and took naps...when we woke up Aunt Jenny was here and then we all went to Joe Pool to enjoy the lake and fireworks.  The lake was amazing...and the fireworks were as well...next year we will try Cedar Hill side...Grand Prairie side was nuts...and the boat ramp was horrible.

The pictures are not great since we were swaying in the boat the whole time.

Thursday Daddy stayed home again and we took Aunt Jenny to the Dallas World Aquarium with us.  It was kind of crazy at first with a big field trip arriving at the same time we did, so we hung back and waited for our friends to show and then it cleared out pretty well.  We got to see lots of birds, monkeys, feed a bird, see tons of fish, penguins, two manatees, alligators, a Jaguar, and walk through the shark aquarium tunnel...we were literally surrounded by them :) 

Then we finished with a late night drive in.  Brave at 9 and Avengers at 11.  We almost made it through both movies, but the kids were done and would not settle down so we did not get to finish Avengers.  So, we will just wait until it is out on video. 

Friday we recovered from all of the business of the week and were running Aunt Jenny's car from shop to shop trying to get it fixed so she would be able to make it home without her car overheating and hopefully not dying...we were excited that she got to stay another day, but sad that it cost her about $900 to fix the car.  OUCH!

Aunt Jenny was able to do her job, get her car, and head out on Saturday just in time for Mommy & Daddy to drop the kids off at the Vandygriff's to play with Heather, Travis, Melissa, and Shane while the parents went to the temple.  Perfect way to finish off a wonderful week.