July

July was such a fun month.  Matt's family came to join him for the last month of his internship at Shell & we had so much fun playing with cousins all the time.  They rented a house just a couple of miles away & it was so great. 

We started off the 7th with the annual 4th of July flag raising ceremony & breakfast at church. 
Trev & Michael's troop took care of the flag ceremony & the rest of us took care of breakfast :)

We headed over to Don's parents later with Matt's family to celebrated the 4th  together.  Hayley made our 4th of July Flag Strawberry Shortcake -so good!

Granddaddy was the favorite of the day, flagging down the ice cream truck passing their house.  Who knew those musical trucks actually contained frozen tidbits of pure joy.  The kids were in heaven. 

What would the 4th of July be without a fun water balloon fight?!!

A few days later we all got back together for a birthday dinner for me and my sister-in-law, Jen.  It is so fun to share a birthday with her. Not sure why the only picture we got was of our husbands eating our birthday cakes, but we were there too!

While Matt and Jen were here, we ate lots and lots of Blue Bell Ice Cream.  So of course, we had to take a trip up to Brenham to visit the Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory together. Cousins and Blue Bell, it doesn't get much better than that!