There have been some bright spots amongst the cranky this past week. We got to visit cold stone creamery and sit outside and enjoy the fountain. Elise loves water in all shapes and forms and she was very content once she got a hold of my spoon. Good thing we got a waffle bowl so I could eat with pieces of that. Also, she's learned to pull herself up on just about anything. I went to go get her from her nap and there she was, standing and crying. Lucky for me she's pretty much all smiles as soon as I pick her up.
Today I caught this cute pic while we were playing with her toys. She has this habit of seeing something she wants really bad and going for it with her mouth wide open. She wanted the camera in these shots thus the mouth wide open smiles.

Ryan's parents and sister got to come visit. I learned that I need to really work on getting a bigger place because there are so many people that I want to be able to come visit! and I like all the interaction that happens while you wait for people to get ready because only so many can at a time, during meals, and when you keep people up at night to talk. Tons of fun!

Anyway, we got to go swimming, to fireworks, the beach and the ward picnic. And Elise got all the loving she could ever want. Oh how she misses Grandpa's bear attacks.

We had fun waiting for fireworks at the biggest park in our city.

Grandma bought Elise a glow necklace. She had so much fun.