The Rest of July

Dress-Up 

This bunny costume says it's for size 6-9 months.  So it's definitely a little small for Ben.  But he still loved it.  So did Kenna.  You can also see she has on what she calls her "ballerina-tard."  :)

Here's something a little more masculine.  

This is all we could fit on her.  

I love it when they're nice to each other.  :) She pretty much has "Go Dog, Go!" memorized so she could "read" it to him.  

We attended the Bountiful City Handcart Days Parade.  It was expected to be one of the biggest crowds so I was a little stressed about getting a good seat.  But the getting up early, setting out chairs, and then getting there 2 hours before the parade started totally paid off.  We sat with most of both of our families pretty much front row.  There's always lots of kids that run out in front of everyone, but you know...  

This was his face pretty much the whole time.  I also love his pink cheeks when he gets hot.  

A princess float

The highlight of the parade was the Stripling Warriors entry which is why the crowd was so much bigger this year than in years past.  Check out another news clip here.

It took them 4 minutes to walk past so I can't post the video we took.  But it was pretty amazing and inspiring! 

Unfortunately, we had one casualty after the parade.  The blessed binki down the street drain. :(

Also in July, we saw Sound of Music at Hale Center Theater as one of the events during my Dad's work conference he could invite family to.  

Dan had to work one evening at the Tooele County Fair and since my parents were gracious enough to babysit for us, I decided to tag along.  The traffic through the indoor arena where all of the vendor booths were set up was getting pretty slow since the fair's demolition derby had started. Did I mention this was Tooele? :)  They came around and told us we could pack up and and go home anytime and didn't have to stay till closing.  As Dan was packing the Utah Foster Care booth up, I heard them announcing they were going to be having a dance competition (using the Wii and the "Let's Dance" game- I think) with a chance to win a a Kindle Fire.  I didn't really have my heart set on the Kindle, but when I hear good dance music, I just can't help myself!  So I signed up!  :)  I won the first round, but got booted the second round.  Over all, I probably placed 4th out of something like 15 people.  And of course I had tons of fun dancing in front of complete strangers!  I'm in the gray hoody, second from the right.  Check it out here.  

I tried on my wedding dress a few weeks ago.  I could barley get it zipped up, but I was still pretty pleased it hadn't "shrunk" too much.  McKenna only kind of liked seeing me in it.  ;)