A Day Off?!

July is always a really busy month for our family--but in the best of possible ways.  My sister Anita and her family come to visit, and we spend the entire month doing as many fun things as we can think of!

So far this July we have spent our time in the usual ways, keeping up our summer traditions of

visiting our local dairy farm,

picking raspberries,

hiking near waterfalls,

exploring tunnels,

building dams,

trying on dresses,

and posing for LOTS of group pictures :)

This year we've had a few additional special events, also in the month of July:

Janae started shopping for school uniforms, getting ready for her upcoming kindergarten premier in the fall,

Ben officially became a cub scout,

our family went overnight camping (in a tent!) for the very first time,

and--the most special of all--Benjamin was baptized. 

His cousins were there to sing, as well.

So why--you might wonder--am I sitting at home blogging when there are still mountains to climb, oceans to explore, and cousins to visit?

It turns out that Jason has come down with the stomach flu . . . forcing us to take the day off.   

There are still 16 days left of July, and we have a long list of things we are hoping to do, see, and make happen over the next couple of weeks--we don't want to miss any of it, but we definitely don't want to spread the FLU. 

Hopefully a day off is all we will need, and the adventure will continue . . . tomorrow?