This Goofy Family

Maricopa County Summer Reading Program + Glendale Library Summer Reading Program= LOTS and LOTS of reading!

Silly doggy thinks the baby pool is for her! <3 

Kate's writing hideout behind the couch

Dollhouse people out to dry after a dunk in the pool. (113 degree weather nowadays!) 

Yup, a tarped Foosball table. Glorious surprise thunderstorms keep us on our toes! :)

"Shhh!" A surprise birthday party for a friend was awesome fun! It was so hard to keep 47 people quiet while the birthday-girl was upstairs sewing with her friend, and we were decorating downstairs. Imagine all the held back laughter! ; )

Goofy Bea! 

After a scrumptious pot-luck dinner, games commenced--including dressing up bible times... 

and Guesstures! (a.k.a charades) 

Thanks to some awesome friends who lent us their minivan while our 15 passenger was out of commission.

Thrift stores!!! 

Sweet, happy-go-lucky pup!

Doctor's office

Talking on the phone with scrumptious--I mean, adorable--nephews!! 

 Silly selfies on the way to church...

 And on the way home. :P (See? It's our van! Yay!! Thanks so much, Mr. W, for fixing it!!!) 

 Little soap makers!

Kate's beautiful creations.

A tent made out of sheets appeared across the gap between the couch back and the window to the sun room.

 

Ella decided its luscious comfy-ness was made especially for her darling highness! 

 
Aunt Lori gave us a puppet theater!!! (Thank you, Auntie! We love it!)

And that about sums up what the Willisters have been up to! 

Aimee

A huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our beloved Aimee! 

Homemade ice cream and cheesecake made by the 'inimitable Jeeves' graced the kitchen a couple days beforehand and preparations continued for the celebration on Saturday! A friend 'kidnapped' her, and they had a wonderful girl time of shopping. Friday, another friend 'kidnapped' her and toted her around for the day, secretly in league with us to bring Aimee to a Coldstone Creamery nearby where we surprised her! (More about that later.) 

We love you, Aimee!! 

And since it is your birthday I think we have the right to post some old, funny pictures of you. Bwahaha! ;P Enjoy y'all!

 (L to R: Aimee, Dad, Perry)

(L to R: Kate, Perry, and Aimee)

Busy and Blessed

Jump on over to Kate's blog to read a festive discription of our Princess's birthday and the rest of that weekend!! The Sacrament of Living

Looking back on August

August was a month filled with new challenges and so many blessings, and we made countless special memories! Here are just a few random pictures.

New 14 year old in the house! Beware!

The birthday meal!!!

Ice Cream. Of course. :)

Up front at church with all the others whose birthdays are in August.

Numerous scavenging trips to thrift stores. Thank God for Goodwill (and reverse cameras to pass the time away!!)

Kate made this scrumptious banana pudding & vanilla wafer thingy that disappeared within seconds of it being placed on our table at church (it never had the chance to participate in the potluck food line). :P 

SOMEONE quietly shut the door while Paul was in his room and made quick use of the scraps of danger tape Jerry brought home from the work sight.

House of girls; ya know, gotta warn them.

This summer, though I have been so bad about posting about it, we had a blast participating in the Arizona Bible Bee for the first time!!! We finished in August and everyone gathered for Celebration Day. Here are just some sneak peak photos of the games at the Hive Meetings we attended.

The girlies with some friends

 Ready to play Water Balloon Battle Ship!

 Introducing our family's team of Bible Bee-rs, complete with a banner Jerry created.

A hilarious Bible quiz with buzzers and all

Hopefully a post about Celebration Day and some more of the festivities will appear soon. Somehow. :P

Drawing, drawing, drawing!- has been the theme around here. Ya gotta be careful nowadays,  when you think you're just sitting on the couch reading. :) 

We think these two are exceptional:

She drew it off a photo and recolored with a smartphone.

Paul drew this one, also off a photo. Isn't it REALLY good?!

And....

For some days, a secret for BB was being put together (in the closet :P) by the older little girls and when it was finally revealed...

She was...um, ecstatic.

A whole doll clothing store was set up...

With cardboard hangers and everything!

She was presented with a stack of Monopoly money and immediately began shopping for her various sizes of baby dolls. 

And that was a really random post of all the things I didn't have time to post about in August. 

Thanks for reading!