Real Life: Austin turns 11!

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Austin turns 11!

We flipped another calendar page and it is HOT outside! I'm very thankful for AC in the house to keep us from overheating! I'm thankful for the sunshine but we need rain! The grass is so brown and dry. Please, send us rain Lord!!!! July has a few fun events in store for us! Austin turns 11! We celebrate our nations 250th birthday! We head to the cabin for a fun weekend! Sparklers are lit! Pool days, beach day and days in the garden! It's summer time so I'm sure there will be lots of moments on the back porch! Hello July!

We got the banners and flags hung!

Wyatt sent Austin a fishing backpack for his birthday and he is SO excited about it!!!! Thank you!

We have veggies ready from the garden!

Sunsets here are stunning!

Austin woke up to another fun birthday! I had the birthday tunes going and he wanted coffee cake for his birthday cake! With candles all over his piece of cake, he made a wish and blow them out! Opening up his gift and finding new baseball gloves and a leg guard was exciting for him!

Gunnar FaceTimed to say happy birthday!

We picked up the cousins and they hung out all afternoon! We grabbed lunch at the Village Cafe and they played squishy ball in the living room! It was too hot outside to play fast pitch tennis they said.

These boys are Austin's best friends! I tease Austin all the time that he's growing up too fast and looking back on pictures, I had them all line up to capture their height! I keep thinking about in five years .... what Will our kids ages be? How tall will they be? What will life be like then? We will have to look back on here in five years to see!

When we took the boys back home, Austin took a quick swim in their pool. That's been so fun for him! And then later we met up with them again at the ballpark! Go Stormers!