PK 4th of July

We headed to the lake Friday morning for the rest of the weekend. I attempted a few pictures of all the cousins in their 4th of July outfits. They did pretty well:)

Had to let them do a silly picture for being so good for a few minutes.

Kresee wouldn't stop 'smiling' like this when I tried to get one of just the two of them.

We did some tubing which is the kids favorite thing.

Kresee waiting patiently in the boat for her turn

The boys seem to go forever so we waited awhile. They were going for a lake record. We told them they went for 30 mins and 52 seconds.

Then Kenzie, Maw and Kresee all went. I think they had a blast.

Kresee got brave and wanted to go all by herself. I didn't think she would weigh enough but I thought we would let her try. She last a few seconds before the front of the tube went in the water with her. She doesn't have enough weight on the back to keep it out of the water when the boat gets going.

We headed to Hell's Gate on Saturday to hang out with all the crazy people in there for a few hours.

 Sadly the firework show got cancelled. 9:30 rolled around, then 9:45, then 10:00 and we see boats start leaving. We knew something had happened. Unfortunately a 27 year old girl went missing and was reported at 9;15 and they found her body the next afternoon around 3:00 pm:(

Here is Sugar very tired after Kerry took her for a 2 mile run. She went running with him both days and did great.

I had to snap one of Hunter. His 16th 4th of July with us. I just knew last 4th was his last time but here he is a year later!

We came home Sunday afternoon and were all pretty exhausted. This is what our bed looked like an hour after getting home.

4th of July

Since the 4th of July landed on a Thursday this year, we stayed so we could go out to Nana and Papa's for the fireworks...This is one of all of our favorite family holidays and we knew we all wanted to be there and have a great time in memory of Papa...He loved the 4th and having all his family and friends out at their house....We were lazy most of the day today and went out there around 3:30 in the afternoon and didn't get home till 10pm...We were worn out but had a great time.

 

Here are the kids in an attempted picture before we left...

 

Cayden looking cute...Kresee had the same shirt:) 

 

 A family picture---the only one I got...

Kresee and Kerry rode on the golf cart a lot...Papa bought this just for my kiddos since we had a blast driving one around when we were young!

We had a great time playing volleyball...We played many games

Both kids had fun riding in their little cars that we have passed down to Cayden...

There was also horseshoes, bocce ball and croquet....We had our usual hamburgers and hot dogs...Afterwards, we rode on the golf cart down the street to Russell's Fireworks to get the kids stocked up...

 Set off a few fireworks that didn't need to be dark outside to light them

 

 

 Kresee and Cayden were brave doing their sparklers

 

 When it got dark, Kohen still did really well lighting all his own stuff and even helped with some of the really big ones like this...

 Kerry is a bum and didn't light one single firework...He did enjoy snuggling with Lady before she got too terrified of all the noise and had to go back inside the house...

 We all enjoyed homemade ice cream and watching everyone's fireworks...

 Oh Kerry did a sparkler---I forgot:)

 After a while, Kresee even got brave enough and started lighting some all by herself...I was shocked and proud that she was being so brave...She did great...

 I think we all did well considering...It was super difficult knowing Papa wasn't there...It was hard being down at his shop eating dinner in it like we do and not seeing him sitting in his chair...His truck parked there, his dumptruck just sitting there too...But I have a feeling he was smiling down on us watching us have a great time...Especially seeing those great-grand kids having a blast...

Fun morning

It was such a pretty morning today and so this new donut store opened up close to the house which isn't a good thing. But the kids wanted to ride their bikes up there and eat some donuts and ride home. 

We then came home and they wanted to play in the ditch with all the yucky mud

Playing in the mud

Today was a beautiful morning. So we got up and the kids rode their bikes while I walked behind them to the donut shop to get some yummy breakfast....When we got back I insisted we hang out outside before it got too hot...We had received a little rain so Kresee went and found some mud in the ditch...They had a great time getting a little messy this morning:)