Catch Up!- July and August

Soo...I know this is all going to be old stuff, but I kind of got behind in posting, so I'm just going to catch up for July and August.
I'll apologize beforehand for the long post and tons of pictures. Also, I'm quite sure these aren't in the right order, so sorry about that as well.

This is us at the fourth of July parade! We started the day with a yummy breakfast at Heidi's house for July birthdays and then went to the parade.

Trying to wear the kids' hats :). Isn't he cute!?

Then we went to the Berls' house (Andrew's sister and brother-in-law) for Emily's birthday party! She's a cutie!

Becca did such a great job on the cake! 

Then we headed to Idaho Falls to Joni and Chase's house for a yummy BBQ.

I love this one :). They are just so cute!

Us getting ready for fireworks! We were super excited.

We all tried piling in the back of Joni and Chase's truck to watch the fire works...we didn't all fit :). We had a very eventful and very fun fourth! :) We love hanging out with family.

The next day, it was my sister's birthday and we celebrated Andrew's and mine then as well. I didn't really get any good pictures though, so that was sad. :(

I made Andrew breakfast in bed for his birthday (although it was actually a day early). We got him some new Sunday shoes and I made him a candy poster ;).

This was on his real birthday. We were back in Rexburg and Heather and Kyle helped us celebrate!

 My amazing cousin Sarah Gunnell was married that same week and we were able to attend! It was the first sealing I had been to since ours, so it was really neat! This is us with my beautiful mom outside the temple.

Aren't they handsome!? 

Joni, Alvin, Liz, Anna, Jonathan, and my parents all came! It was a very fun trip :).

The cute couple!

 They just look so great! We are very happy for them :).

This was a bittersweet event for us. One of my best friends left for her mission in July. She is in New Zealand now. We are so proud of her and we miss her lots!

This was after her farewell talk. She did a great job!

The semester ended finally and so did my internship. It went really well. Andrew was sad to be leaving his chemistry buddies, so we had to take pictures!

This is random, but I was able to get ice cream from and ice cream truck for the first time! Believe it or not, but it was on my bucket list, so we got to cross that off! Plus we made it on the facebook page of Cowabunga! We're famous now! ;) Just kidding. :)

We also got released from our primary calling in July :(. It was sad, but we are excited for the new adventures in our new callings! I'm in young women's now and Andrew is teaching Gospel Principles. We are enjoying everything so far! 

Anyway, we decided to throw a party for our primary class as a goodbye, and this is a picture of some of our cute kids! We love them and miss them!

Kyle and Heather got us into playing four square for the past few months! We play at least three nights a week :). We're getting pretty good!

More four square :)

Sometime in August, we washed our car for the first time since we got it. Heidi helped us :).

Shiny and clean!

To celebrate the August birthdays in the Baker family, we went to the Chubbuck day parade. It was fun!

Neat Native American dance.

Cool tall man on stilts.

Then we went to the park for lunch and cake. We played lots of games too. These are just fun pictures I took....unfortunately I didn't take pictures of anything else ;).

Andrew...

Emma...!

We've also done a lot of canning! We're now obsessed with building up our food storage ;). This was some salsa and beans we did. Mom was so nice to help us!

Checking the jars...

We also did some peach jam and apple jelly. Mmm Mmm!! We aren't done yet!

We even bought our own canner!

 We received a certificate for Destinations Inn in Idaho Falls from our wedding, and we hadn't used it and we found out the expiration date was coming up, so we decided to use it.
We stayed in the England room and it was neat! This was the secret passage way behind the bookshelf that led to the bathroom.

The room

 It really looked like castle! It was cool!

The next day Joni and Chase invited us on a double date. We went to our first minor league baseball game! It was the Idaho Falls Chukars. We left early to put Alvin to bed and when we left it was still zero to zero in the fifth inning! Exciting game huh!?

Cute family :)

Now us! 

Chase even got a foul ball that went into the parking lot as we were leaving :)

This was our first tomato from the garden! We were so proud :)

These next pictures just show the progression and growth of our garden. We've loved it so much! It's just so pretty!

I just had to take pretty flower pictures :)

We finally got some butternut squash! These are the tiny ones, but now they are getting pretty big!

We've picked tons of tomatoes! They are great!

The squash kind of crowded out everything. We might do some things different when we plant next year :)

First bag of tomatoes! And we've had a few more of those too :)

We've been so blessed with our garden!

We were able to go on a fun camping trip with family in August. We went to warm river...by Mesa Falls.

My three oldest nieces and nephews were invited to come too! It was fun!

They sure love to play with Andrew :)

Thursday night Dad, Andrew, and the kids arrived first to set up camp and mom and I came later after a meeting for my mom. 

This was Friday and we were driving to cave falls. They sure are cute :)

Us in the car.

This was cave falls. It was beautiful!

Just some cute pictures :)

In front of the falls.

This was a overhead view. It was gorgeous!

Andrew being his risky self ;)

Joni and Chase arrived at lunch time and we played in the water some and then visited Mesa Falls. It was beautiful, but somehow my camera was left at camp, so I didn't get any pictures. We hiked down to the lower falls to where we could touch it and it was super neat! It was beautiful too :)

Stuffing grapes into their mouths...silly kids.

Alvin loved this green inter tube. It was cute :)

On Saturday we visited the springs that flow into the warm river...they weren't warm. It was actually ice cold!

It was super pretty though.

We hiked up to where the spring came out of the mountain.

Wading in the ice cold water!

My handsome Andrew :)

It was so cold that it hurt until your legs went numb ;). But we still enjoyed it!

At the end of August we celebrated some September birthdays. There were some water activities for the kids, and Andrew decided to join in ;)

Both Andrew and his brother Benjamin, had fun in the water with the kids.

This was a "Parents with their baby" picture and Andrew and Heidi were being silly ;)

More water fun!

Near the beginning of August we also got to spend some time with Matt and his fiance Alicia and her son Justin. It was super fun to be with them! We love Alicia and Justin :). I don't know why I didn't take any pictures, but I didn't, so I'll just have to deal with it. Also, my cousin Ethan left on his mission...once again, no pictures. We also had lots of fun family gatherings throughout the month. Hopefully I'll be better at taking pictures next month ;).

Well, that about sums it up! I'll try to be better next month with staying up to date ;)