Summer Fun!

Yummy Light Bulbs!

I'm Personal Progress leader of the teen girls in our church. This was a cute little light bulb jar I found this summer in Utah - I knew our girls HAD to have these for a little incentive treat!

They're even cuter in a group :)

Patriotic Cake!

Is this the cutest and most clever cake you've seen?! My sister, Cathy, made this for us for 4th of July. It was so fun how every piece cut looked like a flag - LOVE it! I'm making this next year for sure - unless we're at her house - then I'll leave it to the expert ;)

Before the cutting....

Cathy slicing the cake with Tess waiting in great anticipation

(I think I hear a tummy growling!)

Ryan's start to Summer

Ryan is always busy outdoors - he learned to ride a unicycle up at his cousin's in Utah. He would just practice and practice until he could finally go down the whole street. Now he's figuring out how to buy one here!

Ryan made the baseball All-Stars for the 3rd year!

Congrats Ry - we love you!

Cake Decorating

Each summer I teach cake decorating and sewing to kids. Tess was so excited because she was finally "old enough" to participate. She made this Hello Kitty cake and loved the week since she was at a table with FIVE of her good friends!

This was my morning class (yes, I did this in the afternoon also!) - 30 fun and silly girls entertaining me all week! It gets a little hectic but it's really super fun and so cute to see them all learning.

Animals in Utah

Great things about going up to Utah for Tess are the animals! Aunt Louise's friend breeds Yorkies - so she got to play one afternoon with all the puppies - total bliss!

We always miss our two kitties at home but cousin Katie has a Ragdoll cat too!

We love KitKat - she's a cousin to our kitty, Sugar :)

Tess rescued this cute mouse in Aunt Cathy's yard. She lowered a bucket into a window well and just waited and waited for him to run in - then she pulled him up to safety and named him Mo Mo. She wanted to keep him and bring him back to Texas - I quickly vetoed that and convinced her that he needed to get back to his own family - whew...close one ;)

Sad start to Summer!

This summer one of Tess' BEST friends moved :( Tess loves Callie because she is a total animal lover and is so fun to play with - they can play for hours taking care of their animals! We got to have Callie over for a couple days and the girls went to Build-A-Bear to make matching Dogs (of course!) so they will remember each other.

We miss you Callie (and the rest of the Lelands)!!