So for Charley's birthday she got some money from Grandma and Grandpa Ellingson. I took her to Target to find a toy to spend her money on. It was really fun going up and down each isle with her to see what toy she wanted. She picked a few that were way more money than she had, but then found this Curious George jack-in-the-box and fell in love!! I showed her how it worked and the first time he popped out she busted up laughing so hard!! Then she did it again, and again and again and every time she just laughed soooo hard! It was the cutest! She held onto it all the way to the check-out line where I finally had to snap a picture and video of her doing it. She thought it was the funniest thing! We took the jack-in-the-box home and she continued to do it in the car and at home. She loves her Curious George pop up box! I actually really loved that she chose this toy out of all the princess toys, dolls and girly things we saw. And she was so good to put a toy back that was too expensive when I told her she didn't have enough money for it. This girl is golden!
For Spencer birthday I got us tickets to go see the Killers! It is probably Spencer all-time favorite band. They were playing in Connecticut about 3 hours away, so we asked our good friends to watch the girls for the night while we went to the concert. It was such a fun night and such a good concert! Brandon Flowers has such an amazing voice! We loved it.
For Pioneer Day, the Primary put on a Pioneer Day Picnic. Since I am Primary President, I got to plan and execute it this year! It was a lot of fun and a great turn out. We had tons of watermelon and everyone brought a picnic lunch. Then we had butter making (shaking glass jars of cream), whirligig making, and 3 legged races. It was such a fun day in the park with the people we love!
More pictures from my phone: Bergen loves to ride Charley's bike around the apartment (helmet and all), my best friends all got together in Washington and I wasn't able to go so they face-timed with me one night. It made me miss them so much!! Next year for sure! We also had a fun date night with one of our favorite couples that was here for the summer doing internships. We went to Del Frisco's Steakhouse and I got the best steak of my life! NO joke! It was probably one of my favorite/best meals ever. The steaks there are so good and you can't go wrong with any of the side dishes. Charley rocked this summer with swimming lessons. She did so well in her first class and was excited for it every time! Most of the kids in her class were a bit scared of the water, so we probably could have had her do a more advanced class, but she still loved it! We had another date night where we picked up some yummy Vietnamese Pho to go and rode our bikes up to the park to listen to the Lumineers. They were playing a concert in the park, so we got a babysitter and dashed. It was such a nice, relaxing night away with my man.
Each Saturday we try to go out and do something fun. One Saturday we went to the Brooklyn Zoo where the girls loved feeding all the animals. Another Saturday we went to Summer Streets. It's a really cool thing they do in Manhattan where they shut down a ton of different streets and have different booths along the streets going up to the Central Park. I had actually ran the streets earlier in the morning and told Spencer about it, so we took the girls later in the day. They had tons of free things to do and eat! We also made a sunshine package for our dear cousin who is going through another round of chemotherapy. He has cancer (again) and as disheartening it is to find out (after you were told it was all gone), he is the strongest, most bravest man I know! We are rooting for you Eric!! Charley helped me pick out all the yellow things we could find to send to him and he loved getting our little box of sunshine.
