Saturday, July 7, 2012

BANG! BOOM! BAM!


This was too cute!
After church we set Ashley on the floor with some toys, I then took off my shoes and went to change into more comfortable clothes so that we could get dinner started! When we came back she was more fascinated by my shoes than her toys!

in other news, she is now 7 months old!

This baby girl wakes up like her momma sometimes.
bed head and all!

for the 5th year in a row we went to the July 3rd firework extravaganza Rainier's Baseball game!

Greg was nice and got the boys a tub of cotton candy!

Gary LOVES baseball!!

our view

during the 7th inning Greg always takes the boys don and lets them get their wiggles out.
baseball is about 2 innings to long
We won the game and the fire works were awesome.
our only complaint was that it wasn't as long as it usually is and they didn't play ANY patriotic songs =(

July 4th!!
Greg's family came up and we had a blast!!
Isaac is teaching Makayla how to Box

I made a water blob using heavy duty plastic that you can find in the painting section and duct tape!!
thank you pintrest
We decided Ashley should have first dibs since once the bigger kids got on it she most likely wouldn't get a turn. She LOVED it!!!!

The bigger kids had a blast! they jumped, rolled, bounced each other, wiggled and went crazy!!

We basically turned our backyard into a water park!! We had the water blob, slip n slide and sponge balls. I even bought Greg and Ben water guns!


We of course had to let Ashley try out the slip n slide, so we kicked the kids off and put her on. She loved that too!!
Yay!! She's a water baby!!!

The kids were starting to get impatient and I had some things to do so she laid down in the grass with her daddy!

I made this patriotic punch, which didn't turn out the way it was supposed to, but still looked cool.

Makayla's birthday was the 3rd, and Gary's is the 15th.
We missed Makayla's birthday party because Isaac wasn't feeling well and Makayla will miss Gary's party because they will be out of town.
So I made them a cake! Red velvet with white chocolate, cream cheese, and blueberry filling!
YUM!!!

The Water blob held up so well that by the end of the day I had to poke holes in it so that we could drain it out.
I poked 2 or 3 holes in it which basically turned it into a giant splash pad!

Ashley did so amazing with all the fireworks! She napped through them all and never cried when one went off!

I also found this idea on pintrest.
We took some red plastic cups (of the Solo variety....because that's how we roll) and we let the kid decorate them with stickers, poked a hole in the bottom and voila, sparkler guards!
"That way no sparkles get on our hands!" -Isaac

For dinner we did burgers and hot dogs and I made a Fresh corn and tomato salad that was AMAZING!!!!!!!

and a 'smore bar for dessert!
ps. I think my new fav 'smore is white chocolate with coconut on a chocolate graham.

For reference.
Remember last year?! how we couldn't even get Gary out of the house for the fireworks?! I had to hide with him on the kitchen floor or in one of the bedrooms, away from all the windows with his ear muffs on?!
*so cute, but WOW!*

This year, not only did we get him out of the house (still equipped with ear muffs) But he even did a Sparkler!!!! YAY GARY!!!!

I love this man and his Pyro tendencies!

He bought this one for me, it's called puppy love!
aaaawwwwww

Here we are....enjoying the show!

I even got Ashley to go to sleep!

This was Gary at midnight with the monster truck that Grama got him for his birthday (because they too will be out of town for his party), Kool aid stache and all....

This was Gary 15 mins later passed out on the garage floor!
Greg set the tent up in the backyard so that he could camp out with the boys. So we told him that we were going to get our jammies on and then Daddy would be right out to take him to the tent. He said he was going to wait on the steps. So Greg got dressed for bed and went out to get him and when he opened the door he found Gary asleep on the floor. So I picked him up and put him in bed with me.

This is what a neighborhood-wide hangover looks like! Hahahaha
We all had fun, as our neighborhood always does.


And this is Greg at 7:30 in the morning cleaning up our portion of the street.

Alex and Lilly were totally in love with Ashley!!
Ashley was happy to have someone to talk to!

And that, my friends, is how we do Independence Day!!!!

Hope ya'll had a fun and safe holiday as well!
Enjoy your summer. I know we are sure enjoying our 2 weeks of summer!!!



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