The rest of July

After having a rough couple of years financially, Dave decided that once we got moved to Provo that he would try and find a part-time job. He was first hired by Wal-Mart, but Target wasn't too far behind in their job offer so he decided to go back to Target. He enjoyed working there before and was excited to return. His first day was July 22nd. I think he enjoyed having something to do while he waited for the school year to start back up. The boys got a lot of time with Dad during the day while Mom worked and a lot of time with Mom in the evening while Dad worked. Not ideal, but hopefully we'll be able to get our finances back in order again quickly.

Fun with Dad:

Practicing his name

Splash pad fun

Bike rides to the river to throw rocks

Fun with Mom:

Time at the park

Playing with the ducks

The 24th of July is a big deal in Utah. The day is known as Pioneer Day and every year a big celebration occurs to celebrate the anniversary of when the first group of LDS pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley back in 1847. July 24th also happens to be my mom's birthday so I always tease her that she should move to Utah so her birthday will be celebrated BIG time! In honor of Pioneer Day, we bought a new rug for our living room. Ha ha! We had been looking for something to match the crazy pattern on our chair. It took us a while to find something we liked, but we finally found it. It was a floor model and had a couple of dirty spots, but we got a good deal on it and it cleaned right up.

We convinced Miles to take a nap so that he could stay up late and shoot off the fireworks we had purchased for the 4th of July but didn't shoot off because he hadn't napped. We put Oliver to bed and took the monitor outside with us while we did our own little firework show. I was amazed Oliver slept through all of the noise. There were several fireworks going off all around us for several hours.

Sparkler fun

A little nervous about the sparkler

 

Dave turned 36 on July 26th! He had to work at Target on his birthday so we had a small party for him that day that included cake, but he got to eat at his favorite restaurant, Tucanos, later in the week on 7/31 to officially celebrate! As adults our birthdays are always low-key, but we do manage to eat at our favorite restaurant and eat cake! Any birthday is complete with at least those two elements, right?

The birthday boy!

Tucanos

And that completes our month of July!