4th of July-Part 3

On Sunday the actual day of the 4th, we had a great day at church and then came home, took a walk, and as soon as it got dark we lit our fireworks, some snakes in the garage, because of the wind, J lit his traditional Exploding Bin Laden Noggin, and then we went to the neighbors and had a few families together so the show was great!!!

4th of July weekend part 2-Saturday

Saturday we went to our city's fun main street parade, it's been a tradition for us to go every year and get candy, chocolate milk, and lots of advertisements!! It was really cold to start, the kids had their sweatshirts and a blankie but as the morning went on, it got warmer and as the candy started being thrown their energy was fired up!!! Our awesome friends saved us a prime spot and the kids all had fun sitting next to each other, there were only a few tears about candy stealing. We also had a crazy parade lady sitting near us snatching up big items before the little kids got to them, it was fun to watch her go so crazy!! After the parade the tradition is for us to go to the same fireworks stand to get some goodies because they have a bounce house the kids can jump on while Daddy picks out the stuff he needs for his pyrotechnics show!!! After that we went to our friends for a bbq and some visiting and lastly we trekked up to Driggs to see Glenn Beck. I'm not a huge fan but J really enjoys him so we went. He gave a great speech to celebrate our independence day and the scenery was beautiful followed by an AWESOME fireworks show to wrap it all up.

Our 4th of July weekend

Independence Day is our family's favorite holiday, it might have something to do with a husband/father who is a history education major and loves anything to do with the founding fathers and the great old USofA!! But also we love the warm weather, the food, the BBQ's, the gatherings, etc. etc. etc. This year because the 4th was on a Sunday we had a whole weekend of festivities!! On Friday the 2nd we went with our friends the Jones family to see the Rigby firework show. While we were waiting for it to start we ate snacks, played games, talked, and lit sparklers. The kids sat up on top of the vans and kept asking, "is it time yet?" we kept trying to stall them and tell them, "any minute now" but it was A LOT of minutes. Finally the show started and it was fun but very short due to budget cuts this year!! All in all we had lots of fun!

Seriously, Way behind!!

Back in June, J and I got to have an awesome date night!! Our wonderful neighbor took the kids for 5+ hours while we drove down to Blackfoot to see Brian Regan. He is HILARIOUS!!! We went with some friends down the street and had a blast! No kids and LOTS of laughing. In fact, those of you who know J well, know that he has a very distinguishable laugh, and very loud. A group of people right in front of us actually moved their seats because he was laughing so hard and loud!!! It was tons of fun!!

Going extinct........

No, not my blogging, although I am WAY behind on that and I need to catch up. On our trip home from WA and the OR coast we stopped at a gas station that had an actual pay phone in working order. Our kids have never seen one of these and didn't know what it would be used for since we have cell phones, e mail, text, etc. J wanted the kids to take a pic in it so 5 years from now when there are no longer any pay phones anywhere we could say we saw one once!!

Happy 4th!!

I am WAY behind, so much has happened since our last post, I really need to download some pics off my camera!! Here are the chillin's bein' all patriotic with the flag! I can't believe they are getting so big! I'll download more photos and get them up!!

Be careful!!

Falling asleep at our house can be a dangerous and interesting thing. J was watching a movie with the boys while Sis and I were napping, when I woke up, I went downstairs to check on everyone and found the boys were gone and Daddy had fallen asleep so they decided to "decorate" him. They did a very good job!!!