The "4th" of July, Celebrating Our Independence!

On Sunday, after church we headed over to Aunt Deb and Uncle John's for a fun picnic with family and friends.  The kids got to swim and the adults stayed cool under the tents.

The hostess with the most-est, Aunt Debbie! Her entire house was decorated with patriotic everything from rugs to dish towels to even both bathrooms!

Uncle Junie and Uncle Tom

Aunt Barb, Sue, Aunt Deb, and Aunt Mae

Grammy and her girls

Natey boy( i hope he lets me call him that forever)

Maggie-pie

Gracie-girl, Gigi, gidget, beetle...

Robbie, Rob, robbers, robbie bobble(yeah that ain't gone go over much longer:)

Daddy and Gracie snuggling

We headed home to do the sparklers and as you can see Bob is so very patriotic with his pj flag pants

I'm Back.....finally! It's been tooooo long!

To much time has passed since my last blog post and so much has happened! So over the next few days I will be updating you on the last 2 plus weeks.

Starting with the most recent and working my way back.....

Our celebration of Independence Day!!! With lots of family and friends! These pics are of the "5th" of July and a little hometown parade!  Lots of fun:)

Maggie, Karis, Cass, and Gracie and guess who in the back??

Robbie, Caleb, Nate, and Hayelom

Kaedon.....sweetie pie!

Jack and Bob

my beautiful friend inside and out, Erin and me

Andy and Kaed

Good job Maggie!

Hooray for the Vets who have risked their lives for our freedom!

Karis and Gracie friends since birth!

Nate messing around with Uncle Caleb

the girls were giving each other foot and back rubs..cracked me up

poor pic, I know but they were all trading candy and Uncle C was watching the wheelin and dealin

I mean seriously, can you get any cuter?!

Cass-diddy was singing Twinkle to her brother...too stinkin cute!

more splashin and fun

Mag-pie and Kaed staying cool

Memorial Day Weekend

This past weekend we had some good friends, Mark and Taira and their two precious girls come down to our camper to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with us.  We had a rip-roarin time that was packed with lots of fun things to do.  Warning: there are many pics in this post.....enjoy!

My cute family sitting by the dock just fishing.....ahhh the life!

yukking it up in the water:)

My four beautiful kiddos.....missing the 5th one though!

My great friend, Taira.....we are two peas in a pod! love you T!

Mia.....I mean....can you get any cuter!!!!!!

Nate and Ellie had a great time on the beach together!  She liked having a big brother:)

They were so cute playing

The guys roughing it up in the ocean and playing with the kiddos :)

The girlies!

Nate....what a cute kid

Mag-pie and Mia posing for a pic

ahhhh love this girl!

Surrey races......this crew against.....

this crew...somehow Gracie and El aren't in the pic

fishing.....sand sharks were caught

Daddy kissing his little, little, little fish...I think we could almost put that in a fish bowl it's so small

But this guy caught the biggest fish of the day! Striped bass, 10lbs. 28 in. he won the prize!