Julie's Life With Boys

On July 3rd we had a delicious BBQ at Grandma and Grandpa Black's house, but I never took out my camera. On the 4th we went to Murray Fun Days, and then swimming at our pool with Nate & Kelly's family. Afterward we did fireworks in the street and our neighbors came out and sat on our lawn with us. Why don't I get better pictures? I catch about 1 out of 10 memories per event. Neighbors: Jesse, Misty, Paulette, and Robin Paulette and Robin shared their sparklers and then wrote their names in the air. So cute! Neighbor Tayden, cousins Adam, Ian, and Kanon I made a flag jell-0.

My niece Kate's Birthday party Grandpa Bruce playing with Kate, Caleb, and Carson

Cousin Ian Cousin Adam Cousin Joseph Cousin Kanon Aunt Kelly Uncle Nate & Cousin Grace Grandma & Grandpa Black And I failed to get a picture of Aunt Liz & Uncle Matt Cox

Sporting his new Easter clothes First swim this summer Vinyl lettering from Aunt Karen! cousin Adam shooting Taylor Relay race during Sunshine Holiday 2009 (Black family tradition) Our poor Taylor is feeling a little sad about baby Eli. To tell you the truth, I wasn't ready for Taylor to stop being the baby. I just thought I would do a little post about cute Taylor. One of the cute things Taylor does: We have a play area under our stairs that Taylor calls "the pace" (the secret place). Josh can't resist. As soon as Josh walks in the door Taylor runs to him and says, "Inna get in the pace daddy." On his way in he sends me a "defeated by the cute" look and gets in "the pace." Taylor's first joke: "knock knock...slime!" Some of Taylor's nick names: lunch face, Tay Tay, biscuit feet

Last picture in the hospital Coming in the front door Caleb and Taylor checking things out...

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I am now 36-37 weeks pregnant.

We decided to add a railing after the comments we got on our last post. It turned out really well, and we feel much better about it. Josh also removed the bottom rung and lowered it so far that Taylor cannot reach the second rung to climb up. On Saturday night we were frantically trying to finish building the bed so we could get a coat of polyurethane on the bed. I thought I heard something outside in our yard. I mentioned it a few times to Josh, but he couldn't hear anything. Finally we opened our garage. Outside our friends, the Banks, were setting up this loft bed in our front yard! What jokers. They thought it would frustrate Josh because he had been spending so much time designing and building ours. It did. At one point Josh threw himself down in the grass in frustration. They totally refused to take it away, so it stayed in our front over night. The next day we sold it. We will have to take the Banks out for dinner with the proceeds.