july's favorite things {link up}

july is pretty much my favorite month of the year. it has my birthday, a holiday, summer vacations, and all things summer jam packed into it! 

in honor of the end of my favorite month here were some of the best parts. 

via instagram pics, of course. 

my birthday

emma insisted on buying me an icecream cake although i was stuffed from dinner. 

it was an awesome spoiled day for me. 

lake powell

this was our first family vacation and my first time to lake powell. 

if you haven't been you are seriously missing out. 

projects

my house is kind of a work in progress this month with TONS of projects going on.

the plan is to have everything back in order in the next few weeks. 

my piano

although this is a project too{and probably the biggest} my new-to-me piano is looking pretty good these days with its new face lift. 

the picture above is the very beginning stages of the project.