It turns out July is the hottest month around here. Now hot doesn't equal Houston, but we had a lot of 97, 98 and 99 degree days - of course it isn't that bad with less than 20% humidity and it cools down in the evenings. Side Note: One of the coolest phenomenon here is the climate is so dry that it will be "raining" but the rain will never reach the ground, it evaporates while it falls. Anyhow, we had a warm July but once August hit, things just cooled down, we've had temperatures in the 80's and today in the 70's, it cools down to the 40's at night, it's wonderful.
We are enjoying life around here - the girls all keep really busy during the days taking walks, running errands, and some regularly scheduled fun at the parks around Glenwood. Allyson has grown at least 3 inches since we moved here - all of her 2T clothes fit perfectly now (they used to be long). Lauren is our brave and independent child, we have to keep our eye on her all the time (especially at church, she has figured out how to push open the front doors of the church building, and she is always trying to get to the parking lot). Amy is doing really well, she is busy helping in our children's ministry at church and taking care of the girls. I love my job, I feel blessed to be working with a great church with an excellent group of elders and an awesome sr. minister. Anyhow, the most important part - pictures of the girls:
The girls and I are out exploring most mornings during the week. On the weekends Justin comes too. We walk all around Silt and see what we can find. Parks, swings, trees, clouds, birds, horses, butterflies, dragonflies, flowers, chipmunks (chickmunks), dogs, mailboxes .... all kinds of exciting things to be seen. I never knew that finding mailboxes could be so fantastic! Allyson is clearly on a scavenger hunt each time we are out on a walk. A couple mornings ago when we were counting horses and stopped to see a couple, they came right over to the fence and the girls were both too excited to contain themselves. The rest of the walk Allyson kept wanting to chew on grass because that is what the horses were doing - each time she tried it she would declare that she didn't like to eat grass!
Where do I even start? We did so many fun things when Papa and Grandma were here. The girls had tons of fun and Allyson is still talking about it all. We took walks, had tea parties, played on playgrounds, rode a gondola, ate pizza and ice cream, shopped, rode rides at the mall, went swimming, read lots of stories, played dress up, glued things, put stickers on paper, made sidewalk chalk art, hugged, kissed, loved and just played and played and played. It was all so exciting and Justin and I enjoyed the visit too!!!!
