July Happenings

 July was a busy month with Megan and Matthew starting high school!

Celebrating the 4th of July in downtown Chandler.

Fireworks!

Matthew sporting a mullet partway through his haircut.

We went to Tucson to celebrate Lionheart's 1st birthday! (His actual birthday is June 29th; we celebrated the first weekend in July.) Here he is opening his gifts.

Playing with his new popper.

Megan helping Lionheart walk.

Megan, Lionheart and U

Grandpa and Lionheart with his cake.

Grandma holding Lionheart while he practices his piano skills.

Matthew loved playing with all the nerf guns.

Lionheart and Grandpa

Champion, Sarah, Lionheart, Me, U, Megan and Matthew

Megan shows off her braiding skills.

Bumblebee! (The Transformer)

Megan and Matthew had marching band camp the week before school started. It was long 10 hour days where they met a lot of friends and learned lots about marching band. This picture is from the performance they did for the parents at the end of the week.

We went to Feed My Starving Children with some friends.

Megan, Matthew, Vanessa and Jacob worked in the warehouse (hence the red hairnets).

Megan, Jacob, Colton and Matthew with the session stats.

Megan on her 1st day of 9th grade.

Matthew on his 1st day of 9th grade.

Megan and Matthew with the Marching Huskies sign that the band put in our yard.

We were able to watch them practice marching one evening. Here are a couple of pictures of Megan. She is marching the clarinet and also plays clarinet in symphonic band.

Here are some pictures of Matthew. He is playing the baritone for marching band as they do not march trombones. He is playing the trombone in jazz maroon. And, yes, he is wearing a jacket in 100+ degree weather. We even got him a white one since he is supposed to wear a white top.

We did a new magic puzzle. Here's the initial completed puzzle.

And here's the puzzle (and Matthew's hand) after the magic.

We did the Colombia Yum Box.