My big brother and beautiful niece

Blake & Nikole!!! My brother and niece came to visit in June. Blake stayed for about a week and Nikole stayed for almost 6 weeks!! It has been such a fun fun summer being able to see Blake and have Nikole stay with us for so long!! She said she had an amazing summer going to girls camp with me and she got closer to alot of the kids in our ward that she knew from last summer....she really "enJoeyed" her summer stay with us, that's for sure! LOL! I so appreciated having her here and helping me out so much, esp with all the swim lessons I was doing!
Here are a few pictures we took while Blake was here. He and Marty were off golfing most of the time and they really seemed to love it, regardless of the 115 degree, blazing sunny weather!

We had fun Cheering Brant on at one of his games...

He's played catcher most of this summer season, but Marty has pulled him in to pitch a few times. It was fun to see him so switch it up during the game .

Nikole and Aunt Tiff:)
Jacob was not happy about being in the heat, but he did ok as long as he had his drawing pad and pen!
Marissa was a little bored,lol! I think it was more like, a little tired, because she fell asleep like this!
Great game guys!!!

After the game we went to Lo-Lo's to eat chicken & waffles! Yum-yum!!

There was one day, while Blake was still here, that two of my swim lesson kids came and as they were walking around to the pool they found this baby birdie on the path that leads around the side of our house. His wing was broken and he couldn't get around very well so we picked him up and tried to care for it. It was love at first sight as far as Marissa was concerned! Stephanie (who just happens to be an amazing photographer!!) didn't have her fancy camera, but she used mine and took some cool photos while I worked with her kids in the pool!