We watched an Independence Day parade. Of course, Elise is a veteran parade spectator and has practice running after the goodies that are thrown from the floats. She collected quite a bag of loot.
This was Anja's first parade. It took her all of 2 seconds to figure out how to RUN out and pick up stuff from the parade route. Most of the time it was candy, but sometimes she was distracted by the garbage. Hard to explain to a 21 month old that picking up some things from the ground is ok, but but some are not. 
Soccer ended this month. Elise had a good time running around. Of course I think she shows incredible natural ability :)
We took a weekend to visit friends, seeing lots of people by being at a different house each day. We have great friends who are willing to host us!
July always brings the fair to town. Our favorite thing at the fair is the animals.
