July 2008!

July started off with my lil' Reed turning 5! yikes!! He wanted a very small party with swimming and a lion cake - so easy to please :) We had the adults work on churning vegan coconut ice cream that was SO yummy! Reed had a great time...









Then near the end of July, the boys and I went down to visit my dad in Jacksonville, Florida. He is fighting a tough fight against bone cancer. He's hanging in there through all the treatments and meds and we were glad to get to visit, and hopefully he didn't mind our noisy crew for a few days :)







One day we all went to the Jax Zoo - they've made HUGE improvements to the zoo and areas for the animals. It was really nice!











Of course we went to the beach one day!









The boys wanted to spend every free moment in the hotel swimming pool. Reed learned to swim underwater this Summer at a neighbor's above-ground pool - so he was eager to try out his skills in a deeper pool.