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Just a quick little round-up of July and August in pictures!  One of the perks of living where I grew up - I got to take pictures of Canon on the porch of the house I lived in until high school, let him play at the same playground across the street and go to the same 4th of July carnival at my old elementary school! Recently, Canon has been playing "church" and will sing from the hymnal and offer communion to us! I got to get away for an awesome weekend at Camp Carysbrook! This kid - is just getting SO big! Months 4 - 8 have really flown by! A little playdate in Waynesboro with my college girls! Haircuts for the whole family! Ben went to California to see the Schultz Family and had a great time getting spoiled and loved on by Grandma! We got to hang out with Elizabeth, from Teaching Sam and Scout , and her sweet boy. Elizabeth is from VA and went to Clemson, but we didn't connect until th...

Last Friday Canon's Preschool class took a trip to "The Beach" in DC. Located in the National Building Museum, it is a temporary exhibit that is a lot of fun! Essentially it is a GIANT ball pit, but it its graded down like a beach and you can jump in the deep parts. We had a great time! 

I've had a few friends who have recently found out they were pregnant! Talking baby gear is one of my favorite conversations, so for a friend who doesn't live close, I rounded up a list of "what I would do if I did it all over again" based on what I know now with 2 kids. I did it pretty fast and she was really focused on strollers, but I thought it would be fun to share! If there is something you love that I missed, leave it in the comments! Car Seat - the Chicco Keyfit 30 is the one all my friends have Stroller - I'm going to list out a few options: 1 - No seat, for car seat only "snap n go" That is the Chicco version OR the Baby Trend version (much cheaper) 2 - something you can use as an infant, that will also grow with you. Typically this means buying the stroller and buying the car seat adapter so you can use them together my friends Mark and Melissa did a genius thing and bought this stroller with the adapter, ...

Before the summer really gets away from us ( 47 days til college football! ) I want to record what we have been up to. At some point I'd like to do a focus on each kid too, but we all know how my blogging skills have been lately #mommybloggerfailure Here is what we did in June!  Enjoying our new house We've been swimming at our community pools  We went to Charlottesville for the weekend! Baby Liam was baptized!   Went to the Zoo Aaron and I got away for a night to a wedding in Richmond!  And lots of playtime at Preschool!  So far it has been a great summer! We've been out of town every weekend in July so far, with one more on the calendar, so a lot to catch up on soon!