Jillian's first day of kindergarten

I can't believe my Jillian is old enough to go to school but she is!

 She's been excited for kindergarten to start since she was done with preschool in May.

 Jillian with Elliot on her first day.

 Jillian and mom on her first day of school.

All my kiddos with me.  They are getting so big!

Washington

While we were in Washington for Rosemary's wedding reception, we got some playing in too!

 Admiring the dinosaurs in Granger.

 I love how Elliot is trying to look up to the T-Rex's head.  It's way up there!

 Grandma and Elliot.  He didn't want his picture taken but at least Grandma looks cute!

 Playing with the Kelley cousins at Uncle Keith's house.

 This picture cracks me up.  I have another one that Jillian is actually smiling in but Anna is not looking at the camera so this one gets to grace the blog.

The Galland kids playing with Anna and Kimber!

We had a good time visiting everyone while we were home.  The girls went camping with Sean and his family and that's all I heard about the rest of the trip (honestly, that's all I heard about for months ahead of time too). Sean got some pictures of the girls fishing and playing in the lake on his phone.  I should get those from him so I can post them.  Sean and I went on a date to see "Star Trek Into Darkness" on the very last night it was playing at the cheap theater.  Good thing we didn't wait until the next night to go! Grandma and Grandpa Porter graciously agreed to put the kids to bed for us while we caught the movie.  I now have a new appreciation for Benedict Cumberbatch (if you don't know who he is google him, I promise you'll thank me).

Rosemary got married!

My youngest sister, Rosemary got married at the end of July.  We were lucky that she got married in the Logan temple because then we could get ready at our own apartment that morning!

 Gotta have clean teeth for the wedding!

 Chloe was ready to go!

 Sean and Elliot looking spiffy.

 The girls in their matching dresses that I made for them.

 At the luncheon I caught some candid shots.  This is the bride and groom, Steven, talking with my dad.

 My brother, Eric and his wife, Tami with their cute baby, Georgia.  And yes, I made her dress too.

The bride with her friends.

 Glen playing with a nephew (Porter, maybe?).

 The day after Rose got married we went to her reception in Almo, ID.  Here are my brothers ready for the festivities.  They are silly boys (love you guys!).

 Chloe and her favorite person in the whole world: Grandpa!

Glen and Elliot.

Everyone took lots of pictures with their nicer cameras so I just have a few snapshots with my point-and-shoot.  We had a good time and Rosemary was a beautiful bride.  I don't think I took any pictures of her Washington reception that took place a week later but we had a good time there too (no worries, it was well documented by others).

4th of July

We had a fun Independence day.  We went to our local parade.

 The kids had fun playing with sticks while we waited for the parade to start.

 I colored the girls' hair with chalk.  I decided it was fun but a lot of work for not much color, plus as they played the color rubbed out.

I made this fruit pizza (gluten-free, even!) for dessert.  It was pretty tasty!