We started the month off with Bryell taking her first steps on her own. July 3rd she started the 2-5 steps at a time thing. We were pretty sure it was going to be our anniversary present from her- her walking on her own! On the 4th, we had our friends Tom and Autumn and their four children over for lunch. We grilled hotdogs and hamburgers- it was definitely the fullest our house has ever been! But it was a lot of fun. We took off on the 5th to Salt Lake City for a few days. While in SLC we went to the zoo. Anything big Bryell could see and loved but the smaller animals did not interest her. Oh, except the cat! She LOVED the cat! That was the first time we heard her say 'kitty-cat' and 'm-ow.' It was pretty adorable. We stayed next to the cat for a while so she could admire it and talk to it.
Other that that, we laid pretty low, we went and played at the park and went for walks.
On our way home we went through Ogden so we could take Bryell to the Treehouse Museum. It is such a great museum. Bryell was the most impressed with a bridge there and crawled back and forth over it for quite a while.
When we got back from Salt Lake City, we decided to head back home for a week. We stayed three days at my parent's house and three days at Jeffrey's parents house. While in Alliance, I went golfing for the first time in a long time- it was a lot of fun, I have definitely missed it.
While in Lingle, Jeffrey, his brothers, his dad, his Grandma, Brecken, and Trevor all went golfing. Bryell and I rode along and played on the greens.
After getting home from Lingle, my parents came up to visit for a few days. Jeff and my dad went golfing at a golf course outside of Park City that my dad has been talking about forever. They said the course was amazing! I also got to go golfing with them on the next day in Kemmerer- always a fun time. While my parents were here we had a first. Bryell, who still wasn't walking more then 5 steps at a time, would go up to my dad, grab his hand and take off walking. They walked EVERYWHERE together!
My parents left, we spent two days up at school and then took part in the annual softball tournament. We play on Heidi's team. It is her family's team, but she is nice enough to invite us to play with them every year and we have a blast! We were the consolation champions this year! After the tournament, Heidi had a barbecue at her house. We went over and ended up staying quite a while. We were all pretty into a game and Bryell was just playing on her own. We turn around and she had walked completely across the room! On her own! Thus the start of her walking!
We had one day between the tournament and leaving for California to see Kyle and Donna. On the way to California we drove about 7 hours then stayed the night. We took off the next morning and got to Kyle and Donna's about 2pm. It was so great to see them and get to know Dylan- who is absolutely adorable!
We hung out and laid low there. Dylan is only two weeks old, I couldn't believe Kyle and Donna were so spirited! The lack of sleep hadn't gotten to them at all! They were so happy and it was so fun to get to spend some time with them- the time is few and far between since we live so far apart from each other.
While there, Bryell got to go swimming at an amazing pool!
She also realized how alike her and the puppy were :)
I also got to see my cousin, Jessica! She lives about 10 miles from Kyle and Donna. We went up to their house for dinner. It had been a LONG time since I had seen her. She hasn't met Jeffrey, I haven't met her husband. We spent a few hours there catching up. Although I brought a camera, I didn't take any pictures :(
We left for home on Saturday. We decided to drive straight through. Thirteen hours straight of driving! And can I say, that Bryell was an absolute ROCK STAR!
The rest of the week we have spent catching up on our sleep before school starts. We have laid low, slowly going up to school getting things ready...
School starts on Wednesday. Our summer will officially be over. I'm not sure when it started....
Here are some random pictures from this summer...
