Wow, I can’t believe its been almost 2 months since I’ve updated the site. We’ve been really busy! This past weekend we held our annual summer party and we had a great time. I think we had around 35 or 40 people show up throughout the afternoon and the kids definitely enjoyed the pool. Peyton enjoyed playing with all of the kids that came out. She tried to keep up with the much older kids and with no nap, she was worn out by 9pm.
In other news, we have been busy doing some improvements around the house. We have cleaned out our two front flower beds and we’ve put in new bushes. I had some friends help me paint the house back during May and I’m sad to report that there are still a few places I haven’t finished… gotta get those soon. But for the most part, we have cleaned up the yards pretty well and clean out most of our flower beds. Most of the beds had kinda gotten out of control. All of the bushes had over grown and we’ve been trying to tame them for a couple years now. We also have been busy painting and freshening up the inside of the house too.
Peyton has had a few birthday parties to attend lately with friends. She always enjoys herself at those. We had one in June at a farm in Calabash and though it was hot, Peyton really enjoyed some of the animals. She wasn’t crazy about the pigs or the goats, but loved the horses and the sheep.
We enjoyed fourth of July activities around Conway this year. We hung out with friends on their boat for the annual Riverfest festival. We had a great time that afternoon and we watched the fireworks show from the boat – that was really cool! We hung out with the same friends again on the fourth and enjoyed food, a few more fireworks and lots of fun again that day.
Peyton is also really enjoying the pool now too. She loves to get in and go swimming. She can float on her own (well, with the help of inflatable arm floaties) and she likes to kick. She doesn’t venture far from me or Jen when we’re in the pool, but she enjoys switching between the floats and splashing around.
I’ve talked about how social Peyton is and that definitely hasn’t changed. She has moved up into a new classroom in the daycare. She is back with all of our friends (who are older – but only by a few days) who had already moved up. She loves being back in the class with them and talks about them all constantly at home. Peyton has also started asking to see some of her other friends from time to time. I guess we’ll be busy arranging play dates soon enough so that they can get together.
We haven’t taken any trips since our trip to DC in May, though we are planning a trip end of August for a work conference. I’m excited and we’ll be visiting family in San Francisco area. I’ve never been to the west coast – Las Vegas last year was the furthest west I’d ever been – so I’m excited to see something different. We’ll spend 5 days in the city and then the next 5 days a little further North in Tiburon.
So, that’s what’s going on in our world right now. I’ll try and post some photos soon from some of our recent events.
