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Happy 23rd of July!!

Its been a while friends. Here are the only pics I've taken in the past few weeks (except for the bazillion pictures I took at girls camp last week).

My family went up to Pomona for 4th of July to celebrate the holiday at Gwen & Gabe's house and to meet most of the Ruiz clan. It was a hot one! But it was fun and we even saw some fireworks. (I must say that the Santee fireworks show is still tops in Mark's book)

Here are some pictures of us waiting for the show to start.

Becker Tidbits

We got together at my parent's house last night to celebrate Father's Day since my parents just returned home from their trip to Ohio & Canada. It was a pretty fun evening, but there aren't too many pictures to share.

My Dad was a little camera shy last night. He's so coy, isn't he?

Mark took this photo of Gwen right after saying, "Don't worry, we're family"....

Only 9 more weeks until Baby Ruiz makes his appearance. We're all waiting for him!!

Toot toot!

I'm about to toot my own horn, so get ready for it. Actually, I'll be tooting mine and Mark's.

I was wrapping a Father's Day gift last night when I had a flash of genius. Mark helped me turn plain old ribbon into a miniature tie for the gift I was wrapping. How cute is this?! (toot toot!!)

(It's a CD...shhhh...don't tell. But that gives you an idea of the scale of it. So tiny and cute! Toot toot!)

I wish I would have taken a picture of Mark with the ribbon around his neck like a real necktie, but you can just use your imagination for that. :)

Sit. Stay. Good Dog.

We love this dog!

Does this make my foot look fat?

The summertime in Santee always means record heat & lots of bugs.  Luckily the temps haven't started to soar yet, but the bugs have already begun their invasion.  Ants, pincher bugs, beattles and other unnamed species can be found right outside our backdoor.

Sometimes the cats bring one in to play with.  And sometimes the bugs just invite themselves in.  A couple weeks ago I was sitting at our (new!) dining table and felt little bite on my foot.  I looked down and there were 2 bites on the top of my foot and they were itchy.

Mark applied some Caladryl lotion so I would stop whining about the itchiness.  And then a few hours later my foot looked like this!

It stayed puffy and itchy for a few days and then cleared up.  I have no idea what bit me, but my foot obviously didn't like it.

P.S.  Please ignore the toes you're seeing in this picture.  I know I need a pedicure.

What's up?!

Just found this picture on my computer.  I thought I should share it with the world.