4th of July, Cousin Sawyer, and Staycation

I told you that I would try to update again this week. Braxton is napping right now, so I am going to type as fast as possible.

We got to spend an entire week in Canyon at the end of June/first of July. This means we got to enjoy the great 4th of July festivities in Canyon, TX! 4th of July was one of my absolute favorite holidays as a kid because it meant a parade, a party in the afternoon that usually consisted of swimming, and fireworks in the evening. EVERYBODY goes to the parade in Canyon, so I wanted to take Braxton to show him off! However, the heat made us cut out a little sooner than expected. Here is our little man watching the parade. He was stylin' in his sunglasses and red, white, and blue outfit!

We also shot off fireworks at Kent and Teresa's. Braxton loved them! He would just watch with his eyes WIDE open!



While we were in Canyon, we got to spend a lot of time with family and friends. My girlfriends and I got together with all of our little ones. We tried taking a picture with all of them. This is the best one we could get. When you have toddlers, it makes picture taking a little more tricky! Isn't it amazing to think that we graduated high school just 7 years ago and now here we are?


Canyon was where we discovered that Braxton was teething. I bought him a teething ring and chilled it in the refrigerator. He didn't like it!


After we got back from Canyon, we packed up again and went to Cleburne, TX, for a family "staycation." We stayed at a little cottage that this couple rents out. It was a lot of fun. We mainly just relaxed, swam, and ate. It was nice to get away as a family.

Our cottage. It use to be a barn. Sorry, it's dark.

My boys swimming!

This was upstairs in the loft.

Family pic the BBQ lady took for us after we ate!

This was the sign across the street from the BBQ restaurant! Notice anything?

As soon as we got back from Cleburne, we go the call from Brock and Meg that Baby Sawyer had decided to come a little early. (She wasn't due until July 29th.) We packed once again and headed to College Station to meet Cousin Sawyer Marie. She was born July 14th at 1:57 p.m. She was 6 lbs. 1 oz. and 18 3/4 in. She was tiny, precious, and healthy! We can't wait to see her again and look forward to all of the fun family holidays that we will get to spend together!

Cousins!

Birkenfeld Clan!

This is Cade. His parents are friends with Brock and Meg. They will be moving to DFW so maybe we will have a new playmate! They are just a couple weeks apart in age!

As you can see, we have been quite the world travelers! We also got all of our pictures in from our family phot session with Melissa Darst. Here are just a few. If you want to see all of them, then go to our smugmug page. Thanks again Melissa Darst! Love and peace to all!