Independence Day

I love the 4th of July! It makes me happy that we can celebrate our nation and the freedoms that we have.

I especially love that I get to spend it with my family.

This year we were missing two important little girls, but we managed.

The girls were having their own fun.

Our day consisted of Einstein Bagel, a parade, stickers, hanging out at Dan's sisters house, playing games, eating, and finally fireworks. It was a lovely day and ended really late.

It wasn't as scorching as last year, but it was still hot. We got prepared by finally buying us some misters and a shade thing.

The only thing that would have made it better would have been to have our girls with us.

Happy 4th!

Pioneer Day Nevada Style

To start off, I don't think that I mentioned that we came home from Utah with an extra person. Miss Z joined us for a week or two. (We shall see how she does.)

Today we were able to go to the annual pioneer day parade, breakfast, and fun. It was a lot of fun and we got soaked. The kiddos got a lot of candy and I kept finding GiGi sneaking new pieces of candy. After the parade, we played some games, we ate some ice cream, rolls, and cotton candy...

and we got these photos taken.

I tried to get all the kids in there together, but GiGi was way to scared and so we had to split them up and I got to join.

It was a fun day and its so fun that even though we aren't in Utah we still get to celebrate.

Fun

The neighbors have a swimming pool that I never let the girls swim in, because 1. the girls are too small (it's a bigger pool), 2. I really don't want to get in it, and 3. I must just be a mean mom. Well the other day I finally gave in. The twinners said they wanted to play in the sprinkler, so we got all ready and went out to play. The little stinkers wouldn't even get in it. They thought it was too cold, so they just ate a popcicle and sat in their chairs. After the yummy popcicle was eaten they ran around playing and the neighbor kids came over and asked if they could go swim with them. There were a couple of older neighbor kids with them, so I let them go. They were so excited. Tyda woke up from her nap and so I took her over and let her swim in a tube. She had a blast until one of the boys jumped in and splashed her. I had to take her out after that. Even though they were shivering, they didn't want to get out.




The other night the girls were pretty wound up, maybe that's because Dan was scaring them! Anyways, I had them lay with me and do some calm, breathing techniques. We have done this before, but they just laughed the whole time. They did much better this time.


Aunt Sarah came to watch the girls while Dan and I went on a long overdue date. The girls were sooo excited to have her here. She is going to make the girls a skirt, so she showed them the fabric. They loved it and wanted to wear it right then.



We went to our ward activity before Dan and I went out. All the kids had a bike parade, but since my girls don't have bikes (this isn't because I'm a mean mom this time, it is because there is nowhere for them to ride it) they just watched. It was a good time and some good food!



Dan and I went and watched Transformers. I thought that it was a really good movie. Thanks Dan for taking me out. We really need to do it more often! I love you so much and am so grateful for the amount of patience that you have with me and the crazies. You are an amazing man and I hope that you get everything you deserve! I LOVE YOU!