4th of July

Now that we're half way through summer, thank goodness, I should probably post a picture or 2 of what we've been up to.
We've finally settled into our new area and are enjoying ourselves out here...quite a lot actually. Minus this disgusting humidity and heat that comes along with it, it's been great. We've made some really good friends and enjoy our park dates with them. The beach has been a little non-existent because of the bad weather we've been having. It seems every Saturday, it's cloudy, windy, and rainy. Which makes for a bad beach day. living 2 minutes from the beach, you'd think we were there almost every day, where in fact, we've been once in the past month and a half.
Our 4th of July was filled with friends, food and fireworks. We started off our morning at the beach, where it was partly sunny, partly cloudy, partly rainy. We had a few friends from the ward meet us there and turned out to be a lot of fun. Until, I got (bird) pooped on, and Conryd went swimming with his phone. That was totally awesome.

 After the beach we headed home for a few hours until we had to leave for our friend's pot luck party. I decided to make these cute little desserts my Aunt Carol made for my baby shower.

I think they're cute and show beautifully, and they're so easy which is a total bonus.
If I haven't said it before, my friends in the ward are awesome. They're all super down to earth, nice, and easy to talk to. I'm really enjoying actually getting to know people we go to church with. Complete opposite of our Utah ward.  It was great to have uninterrupted conversations, all of our kids were consumed with the mass amounts of toys this family has :) It was crowded, loud and wonderful. The plan was to go out with a few families to light fireworks but Mr.E hadn't napped and needed to go to bed. But before we sent him to bed, I insisted that our friends that live in our building, let us come up to their place to watch a few minutes of the city firework show. They live on the 21st level, and have a great view overlooking the golf course where the show takes place. They were so kind to let us bombard them and take over their balcony :) Don't worry, they watched with us, along with their son, Mr. E's BFF. The firework show was okay, but didn't really AMAZE any of us. But because we were so high we could see 5 or 6 different firework shows from all over. Some as far as 30-40 minutes away. Perks of living at the penthouse level.

As for now, not much is going on. We go to the park almost every day. Have play dates almost every day. Go to the pool a few times a week. And play with cars...all day, every day.

This little guy now likes the swings. He's hated them since the day he was born. He's a changed man.