Grace is 7 months old!

At 7 months old, Grace is learning so much! She is quite fast at creeping, and is getting strong enough to lift her belly up as she crawls (but she is still working on this). We are always surprised at how much she's getting into and how fast she can move ... she seems to be trying to keep up with her brother! She even pulls her self to a stand sometimes. She loves to be tickled and her biggest entertainment is still watching Griffin play.

It was nearly impossible to take her 7 month pictures on her back ... she hates being on her back and flips over to start crawling as soon as she's placed on her back. This makes for some interesting diaper changes!

Fun Times at the Pool

We are in our 15th day over 90 degrees in Denver, so we've been going to our neighborhood pools a lot lately! Griffin loves being in the water!

All that swimming makes for a tired boy!

So happy together ...

Griffin and Grace are getting quite close these days ... she is so amused by his every action, and he's starting to enjoy interacting with her more and more!

Griffin reading to Grace

She hangs on his every word!

Griffin loves to pull Grace around the pool ... he thinks it's his brotherly duty to show her around!

Griffin and Grace playing together at the Children's Museum

Guys Backpacking Trip/Girls Weekend

Last weekend Josh and his friends went backpacking, so the wives and kids planned lots of activities while they were gone.

On Friday night we had a pizza party with Isaac ... the boys needed a bath after all that playing!

On Saturday we all went to the annual Stapleton garage sale, where we all bought lots of baby and kid stuff!

Grace and Eli were little sweatballs afterwards!

We had a sleepover Saturday night ... the boys had so much fun!

Isaac and Griffin had fun sticking their heads in the waterfall at the fountains

Playing at the fountains

We got yogurt on Sunday ... it was 97 degrees and quite necessary!

We went to the pool Sunday to cool off...

It was a fun weekend, but we were all happy to see our husbands on Monday!

Josh's Back Packing Trip:

Josh, Sam, Jesse, and Joel headed up into the mountians for a backpacking adventure. They were gone 3 nights. The first night they car camped and the last two nights they backpacked around a loop and camped along the way. They underestimated how long it would take the hike the loop, so there was more hiking and less hangout time. They hiked between 20-24 miles in the Lost Creek Wilderness area. They all survived, but have lots of stories!

Here is their site that they car camped.

The first day they stopped to fish for a bit in this tiny stream of water.

They were able to catch some tiny trout!

Sam and his fish.

Day two of backpacking.

There were lots of cool wildflowers along their journey.

Stopping to enjoy the view.

Camp site for their second night.

This was Josh's favorite part of the trip ... they found a cave to fish in.

Josh fishing

Lots of cool scenery on their trip:

They all came back tired and sore, but give it a couple months and I am sure they will want to do it again! :)

Sharing Some Smiles

Grace lights up when I take pictures of her ...

6 months old

Denver's "Monsoon Season"

We are apparently in a monsoon season in Denver, we've had extreme thunderstorms almost daily for the past week. On Wednesday we saw the most beautiful rainbow from our porch:

And then it was hailing minutes later!