Tragedy & Blessings

July has been CRAZY to say the least. It started off not that great. We found out the first week in July that my sisters best friends (twins) were being molested by their father since they were 8 years old. Needless to say my parents turned their father in (who is also my Dad's good friend) He is currently sitting in the county jail and I hope he will go to prison for a LONG time. This was the only thing I could think about and I just couldn't get the girls out of my mind. Thank goodness for a loving Heavenly Father who is looking out for them and things are starting to iron out. We are working on getting the girls out of protective custody and back home. With such a bad start to the month of July it was going to take A LOT to cheer me up.

The blessings have been POURING in since the bad news. Mike's little brother and his family gave a semi-surprise visit. They stayed for about a week and a half. We did A lot of fun things together. We went to the 4th of July parade downtown, Gondola rides, fireworks, walks along the lake, and Mike even took us all for a boat ride. Our last family activity was a bike ride on the Hiawatha trail. To top off the Brian Dan family fun we found out yesterday that they will be expecting a baby girl! They will have one boy and one girl. YEAH!!

Next Mikes older brother Steve and his family MOVED to Idaho. We are so glad to have them here and have been hanging out almost everyday since they have arrived. We missed ALL of them and are happy they are here with us. Their kids are giants and their little Summer is such a cute little girl! We have been going down to the beach everyday that it's nice and taking advantage of Summer.

We just had a birthday party for the twins and we are able to have supervised visits with them. They seem to be doing well and I am thankful I have been SUPER busy to keep my mind off of the bad news.

This is BY FAR the longest blog entry and I promise I won't write books every time I post!

I posted most of the pics on facebook and I tried to post different ones on here of the craziness!

Carter 8 months

Little Car is 8 months old! Carter is now "army" crawling everywhere. So I thought it was appropriate that I posted a pic of him in camo. A few of the things that I LOVE about little Carter are....

1. likes to "nuzzle" his nose in my neck

2. MELLOW (thank goodness)

3. likes to cuddle

4. He sleeps in MANY positions and it's fun to peek in his crib when he's asleep

5. LOVES music and moves ONLY his shoulders and head when he dances (reminds me of a bobble head)

6. He tries to make me think that he's hurt and lets out his hurt cry when I'm not paying attention to him or taking too long making a bottle.

7. He doesn't get into anything even though he's mobile! YET.................

8. Will go to ANYONE that wants to hold him

9. Carter adores Mikey to no end

10. He likes his Mommy the best :)