July 4, 2011

Our 4th of July started out hot & early with our church's stake breakfast at a local park.   The kids loved the dunk tanks.  Then we moved on to a party at the Martino's house.  Rechil had prepared some delicious Filipino food for us.  It was a nice change from the usual hot dogs & burgers. 

We finished off the day at a golf course to see the fireworks display. While we waited for the fireworks show to begin, I had fun taking pictures. Ashlyn debated the perfect pose before settling on this one.

Chris bought himself this mug or as he likes to call it his "fat lady mug".  He likes to fill it up at the Circle K with diet Dr. Pepper with LOTS of vanilla syrup.  Landon likes to sneak drinks whenever he can...something I am not wild about at all.

Ashlyn had quite the time with her little flag.  Gavin had fun rolling down the hills while we were waiting.

Sparkler time!!! I actually bought sparklers around Memorial Day cause I couldn't find any for last year's 4th of July.

 

Landon loved the fireworks!

 

Landon trying to get Whitney to wrestle with him.

Ashlyn strikes with her flag once more!

4th of July 2010

We were disappointed in the Davis-Montham AFB 4th of July festivities. The fireworks were good but there was not much to do leading up to big event. They hardly had any food vendors. Since we had time to burn we decided to walk down to the shoppette and get Icees'. All day Ashlyn had been worried about getting to the 4th of July and she does not like to exert herself physically so she was a little put out with this plan. Once she had her Icee though she was much happier.

Ashlyn enjoying her Icee.

This shot cracks me up every time I see it!!! Looks like someone partied a little too hard and had too much fun! She fell asleep on the drive home and apparently could not make it up the stairs to her bed. Though she did manage to get one shoe off before passing out.



Landon getting some rough housing! Can you tell how much he hates it?



Watching the fireworks. Ashlyn was loving them! I expected Landon to be scared but he wasn't at all.

My favorite people.

Landon loves to put all kinds of things in Chris's mouth. Chris lucked out this time cause he kept feeding him cotton candy.

Gavin was on a bit of a sugar high after his giant Icee followed up with cotton candy.

Our All-American Sweetheart.

Easter 2010

Our Easter was pretty low key this year. I think we each consumed at least 5 pounds of candy over the past two days though. The Easter Bunny comes to our house on Saturday. Mostly so Mom and Dad don't have to deal with kids on sugar highs during church on Sunday. The kids think they have really lucked out on this one! Another tradition is that we set out their Easter baskets Friday night and then the Bunny fills them. Chris prefers to have the egg hunt inside the house on Easter morning. I prefer to have it outdoors later on. This was Chris's year so it was indoors. In the picture below Ashlyn is throwing a fit because someone beat her to the eggs on the stairs. Of course Gavin went and put some of his eggs on the stairs and called her over. And then he wonders why she behaves in this manner.

Gavin got that baseball hat he is wearing and of course the latest Nerf weapon. Along with the "Boys Survival Book". It is full of all sorts of useful info like how to survive a tornado.

Whoopsie decked out in her new dress the Bunny brought her.


As you can see, Ashlyn got that coveted high chair for Whoopsie. Ashlyn makes me take pics of just Whoopsie. She is one proud Mama!

Gavin made us wait to start the hunt while he ran upstairs to get his sword. He needed it to knock down those hard to reach eggs on the top of those pictures.

Whitney wanted lots of colorful knee socks for Easter. She loves to wear them with shorts. She thinks it is very stylin'. I thought the shirt fit her oldest child personality perfectly. I just wish they had one in Chris's size. =D

To really enjoy her candy she needed to be reading a book.

St. Paddy's Day

4th of July

Gavin loved his 4th of July shirt this year. (Last years was a striped polo in red, white & blue.)
He told me several times! Think he's trying to give me direction for next year's shirt?

Whit is proud to be an American!

Ashlyn was scared of the fireworks. She buried her face in Chris's chest and somehow managed to go to sleep. Though I don't know how with all the noise!

We had a great 4th of July. Great food, good friends and awesome fireworks!