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So I never did get around to writing my July family update, so I'll do one post for July and August here now!  

We spent the first part of July in Oklahoma.  This was super relaxing, and it is always great to spend time with family!  We got to set off fireworks, play in a pool, go to a jump space, do an escape room, go to a water park, and pedicures!  I'd say it was a pretty great trip!

Once we were back from Oklahoma, we settled into our summer routine.

June was a fun and busy month for us!  It's been an unusually hot June for New York, so we've mostly spent the month trying to stay cool!  We went out to Long Island one day to visit family and take a quick trip to Robert Moses Beach.  Gigi, Bop, Uncle Jason, & Aunt Lexxie came to visit us, and Aly had her dance recital and moving up ceremony!  School ended on the 26th, and then we flew to OK the next day, where we still are!  Time is flying by, and I'm grateful to spend it with lots of friends and family!

May was a fun-filled month!  Most notably, we found out we are having another boy, and we decided on his name--Jackson Graham Arevalo.  Aly got to go rock climbing, we visited grandparents in Long Island, we spent a day upstate, had a gender reveal party, everyone got a stomach bug, and we spent the weekend in Jersey for our 7th Annual Memorial Day Weekend. This has been such a fun tradition, getting to spend every year with some of our closest friends!

I have clearly been slacking, so I am finally sitting down and writing a blog update for both March & April!

We started out March with a couple last days in Australia and then we slowly made our way back home.  Once we got home, we were welcomed right back into a New York City winter, complete with a snow day to enjoy.  

For this month's blog post, I am just going to write about our trip to Australia!  It's fitting because as I sit here and write this blog post, I am still fighting off the extreme jetlag.  So let me start at the beginning...

We started dreaming of Australia early last summer.  I mentioned it to Ron at one point, and he just laughed at me.  To which I responded, "Well, you're not saying no!"  After that, we spent the summer working out the details to see if we really could make this dream a reality.  Soon all the details fell into place, and there was no turning back--we were going to be taking 3 very small children halfway around the world.  

We rung in the new year with our good friends, the Schmidts!  It is always such a relaxing and refreshing time with them.  The rest of the month has been busy with work and hanging with friends and family.  Ron also started vlogging this month, and you can check out the first few episodes at the very bottom!