The Rest of July

 Sam continued his piano lessons this summer. While he went to lessons, I took the other two to the park each week for a little while. It was stinkin' hot.

 Dan's sister's family came to visit us. Heather had been taking a class in NYC, then Lael and the kids came to see her for a few days. Then they took a train down to Richmond to see us. It was really nice of them to make the visit! Texana is closest in age to our kids and she and Sam got along really well. Marshall and Mica were also really sweet to our kids.

 While Heather was here, Katrina also came by for a morning on her way to the beach. It was so nice to see her for a little while! (Spencer, Katrina, Luke, Juliet, James, Afton, Sam, Eli, me.) Why couldn't we have lived in Texas at the same time??

 We went to the art museum.

 This was my favorite of the day. So beautiful and life-like.

 Lael was really good at making Eli laugh.

 One night Mica watched our kids while Marshall and the adults went to see Jason Bourne. This is a selfie of me and Matt Damon, obviously.

They wanted to see the Capitol so we did that as well.

I've probably mentioned this before, but the Capitol building houses the only statue of George Washington that was done while he was alive. Pretty cool.

And that was our July!