4th of July Weekend

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend!! We started the day off with our Ward breakfast at Lowell Park. It is always such fun, and we always have a great turnout!! Spence went golfing with some friends up at Kayak Point and came home burnt and exhausted! :) After the breakfast, Emily and Erin went to a parade with Hannah Shinsatos family while I took the little ones with me and we bought a new grill. You can't have the 4th without a BBQ!!! We spent the afternoon getting ready for our BBQ and playing in the Shinsatos blowup pool. (Blowing the thing up was an adventure all its own!!:)

We were lucky and got to have the missionaries and the Shinsatos over for dinner. We enjoyed our grilled chicken and hot dogs and all the fixings. The Shinsatos brought Ice Cream Sundaes for dessert! YUM!! Then we stayed up til midnight doing fireworks with Tobeys and the whole neighborhood, it seemed! People had some cool mortars that shot way up high! We had no need of a professional display! It was soooo loud, though. I'm afraid most of our pictures look like we weren't enjoying it because we had to plug our ears!! We definitely had fun!!

On Saturday, we got to have some time with Dougs family. They, unfortunately, had to come over this way for a funeral. So, we got to play with Jacob and Joey for the morning. Then we lucked out and got to keep Joey and Katie for the weekend!! Jen, Nat, Freddy, and Bridget came up for a BBQ on Saturday and we made homemade, strawberry ice cream! It was so fun!

We had a great weekend and loved every minute with our family and friends!