celebrating

I feel behind in blogging, so here's a quick catch up. We celebrated the 4th of July for 3 days straight. It was fun but exhausting.

On Friday July 3rd, my mom's family always has a cook out (actually we call it a weenie roast, but that might be offensive to some people) where we roast hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire. My two uncles were in town, so the whole crew was there (well you know, expect for Ben). It was lots of fun to visit and catch up with everybody.

Kaleigh and Rhone playing together. She's such a nice older cousin.

Morgan and Brock getting ready to eat

On the 4th, we watched the Malad parade with family friends. Rhone seemed to enjoy some of it (well mostly the 4-wheelers), but the high school band made him burst into tears- I guess he thought the music was bad or just too loud. We had yummy bar-b-que with the Dorius family, went to some of the events at the park, had our own little cookout and finished the night with fireworks. For such a small town Malad does have pretty good fireworks. Rhone even managed to stay up until 10:30 or so to see part of the show.

Celebrating Independence Day and hoping that Ben is maintaining his independence by evading the enemy at survival school. We are grateful that our country believes that, "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Some of the gang watching the parade.

Who grills at your house? Yep this is my mom grilling up the goods for dinner.

One of the things I love about Malad is cool summer nights. Here's Rhone waiting for the fireworks to start. He wasn't the only one wearing a warm jacket that night.

Rhone was too busy watching the fireworks to look at the camera.

On Sunday my dad's family had a little bar-b-que at my aunts house. It was fun to see my cousins and all their kiddos. The older ones where a hoot to watch playing in the pool and of course it was fun to take turns holding everyone's cute babies too.

Tiff with Alli and me with Rhone. Rhone is only a week older than Alli so it's always fun to watch them play together.