July Minus Vacation

I love summer! July is always full of stuff and so busy that it just flies by. I love that there is so much to do, but I do not love how quickly it disappears. August comes, kids go back to school, and before you know it, it's Christmas. (We're not thinking about though. I'm still bitter about snow and the length of this past winter.)

So, back to the sun, warmth, thunderstorms, holidays, vacations, movies coming out, yard work, and just completely enjoying everything about this summer.

I did not get many pictures of the 4th of July. That is because we didn't really do much. We did, however, make a birthday cake and enjoy the fireworks of family and several neighbors.


I got the idea for the cake off of Pinterest (check out my pins if you'd like to see the site I got the idea from). I'm not super happy with my decorating work, but I was pretty done with baking by the time I got to decorating. Also, next time I'm going to mix raspberries into the icing for the filing.

With Harry Potter 7.2 coming out in July, we decided to re-watch all of the previous movies. One Friday evening, we decided to have a Harry Potter Picnic Night. We went and got Subway sandwiches (bought one for $5 the had enough points to get one free!!), bought a bag of chips from the grocery store, went home and setup a picnic on the floor. It was a lot of fun. Henry especially enjoyed being able to eat on the family room floor. It took a couple of days to get him to go to the table when we said it was supper time.

Henry hadn't paid the least bit of attention to any of the previous movies, so we were a little worried about nightmares when he decided to pay attention to this one (#5, I think). He didn't seem to have any nightmares. Hopefully we didn't scar him for life.

We did have to do it again a different night. Monkey had to join this time.

Another "fun" July activity has been vacuuming. Almost every day, Henry will pull out the vacuum and want us to vacuum the whole house. Honestly, I do not vacuum every day. Nope. Not even. If Henry had his way though, we would!

So helpful!