busy busy

I LOVE this face haha! He cracks me up! We went with a friend to the art center for youth.

Uncle Donny and Royce in their fort

Royce's chocolate mustache and goatee

Hanging out in his pool in the backyard.

The last few weeks have been crazy! The last week of June I watched my niece and nephew. I drove out to their house and we swam and hung out. My niece Landis and I went to see Eclipse on that Friday. And I loved it! :) Royce enjoyed the company of his older cousins and seemed to enjoy their dog Casper. He was calling Casper, Basket. Haha. If the kids would yell out to Casper to be quiet Royce would be right behind them yelling "BASKET!" It was really cute. haha. For the 4th of July my family came down. Except my mom wasn't able to she had to work :(. We hung out and had fun. We didn't go to any of the festivities. We avoid keeping Royce out passed his bed time. We regret it every time. So we just came home and put him to bed. Donny stayed with us that week. And Royce LOVED IT! They played with cars and went swimming and they built blanket forts. We enjoyed having Donny here with us for the week. Then my mom and Hannah came down and on Saturday we went dress shopping with Aubrey! It was really fun. We spent a long time searching but came out with the perfect dress in the end. It really is such a gorgeous wedding dress! Aubs look STUNNING! Grannie was down here with mom and Hannah and we went to our cousins reception. That was fun. Good to see the family that we never get to see. Everyone went home that weekend. Hannah was supposed to stay with us for the next week. But she was excited to get home because dad finished her bed. And she really wanted to work on her room. We were sad she didn't stay but we understand. So July 12th Royce started swim lessons. He goes Mon thru Thurs for 10 mins each day. We are now on his 7th lesson tomorrow. He is doing pretty good. He screams nonstop the whole time haha. Well this week he has been doing better. Not screaming so much. He floats really well. And he can monkey walk. And he holds his breath pretty well. Miss Jennifer will have him swim to the wall and grab on and monkey walk. He doesn't like being on his back at all. So when she has him on his back "night night" he screams. Then she has him wake up and he is fine. He just has 2 more days of swim lessons. Then it is up to me to keep his memory fresh of all the things he has learned. It is recommended to go through another session but I don't think I have the energy to go 2 more weeks. It has been such a hectic summer for me. I am just happy that I got Royce the 2 weeks of swim lessons. Last night Reyn had a White coat ceremony for P.A school. They give the 2012 P.A's their white coats that they will be wearing during their clinical rotations. It was pretty neat watching Reyn go through it. Because even though he still has 2 years til he is done at least he is that much closer than he was before. We had dinner with his family and enjoyed our time together. :) Reyn has 3 more weeks of stressful classes. Then he gets a 3 week break. In that 3 weeks time we hope to be in San Diego and Lakeside. Getting out of the heat. ;) I started working out again. I really want to lose another 10 to 15 pounds before Aubs wedding. Which is Sept 3rd! So actually reasonably I will prob get 6 or 7 lbs off by her wedding. And then keep on working the pounds off from there. So there you have it. The busy summer with the Gunnells :) This is really more just for my journaling purposes haha. But there is our update.