July

 July was such a fun month!

As I'm writing this, the kids are officially back at school.  The summer literally flew by and none of us were ready for it to end.

We taught Bowzer hide and seek.  It is the cutest thing to watch him wait for the kids to hide and run around like crazy looking for them.

Mid July Caleb was able to get a tour off.  Unfortunately, he ended up having court basically every day he was able to get off from regular work so we weren't able to go anywhere on vacation.  We made the absolute best of it, though and created a vacation bucket list.  We kind of just listed a bunch of things as a family hoping to be able to cross off a few, but we surprisingly got to check off every single one.  I really think we may end up making this a permanent part of our summers.

One of them was go out to a fancy restaurant.  We got all dressed up and headed to the Melting Pot.

We also had play a new board game.  We got Hues and Cues and it was a big hit. We highly highly recommend if you've never played.

Family move night we got to watch the Hunger Games with the kids because now the entire house has read the books.  We also had a brownie sundae night, went to a new park and had a picnic, and the kids requested that they make dinner one night.  We all got to hang out together making chicken parm and it was really fun.

Caleb and I got to sneak away to Williamsburg for some back to school shopping and stopped at our absolute favorite restaurant we haven't been able to get to in almost 5 years.

We were not ready for the month of July to be over!