July 2007

June was a crazy month! Most of it was on vacation, and even though we were sad to come home, it's nice to have some familiar routine for Crystal. Like most toddlers, she depends a lot on her routine to stay in a good mood. Scott's parents do the long beach island thing every year, and because we had so much fun this year, we're already making plans to be out there next year too. Anyway there's not much to update reguarding June because of the many slideshow instalments provided in this blog. We celebrated the 4th of July at Lisa's grandparents cabin, where we ate burgers, steak and ribs, along with some fantastic salads and the usual barbecue chips. A lot of Aunts, uncles and cousins on Lisa's side of the family were there, and Crystal had a great time playing the children who were closer to her age. We made a point to sit on a blanket at the temple to watch the fireworks with Crystal to see how she would react. Crystal doesn't scare easily, so we didn't think there would be a problem. It wasn't. In fact she could care less about the fireworks, and all her attention was focused on her glowsticks that her uncle Matt provided. She ran around twirling them around in circles like a little she-ninja and completely ignored the fireworks. We left early to avoid the crazy traffic, and we were way ahead of everybody and thought we were home free untill we got rear-ended by a group of 18-21 year old boys and we had to pull over and exchange insurance info. Luckily nobody was hurt, and we didn't have much damage to our car at all. Crystal was asleep through the whole thing, clutching her glowsticks in each hand. The Officer on the scene said that we were not at fault and that was that. We felt bad for the kid driving though, he was nice and the traffic was pretty crazy, and his poor car had a lot more damage than ours did. Hopefully things work out for him. It was actually a pretty good day up untill the fender bender. We got home at midnight and crashed. So that was how we spent our independance day.
Crystal sleeping in the car with glowsticks in each hand