Loving Life

A few weeks ago Kelly's brother Dave and his family came up to visit. We decided it would be fun to go shooting guns. My kids have shot a BB gun and that's it so the boys thought it would be fun to take up the 22's, the 357 pistol and the Shotgun. The kids loved the 22's but thought the others were way to loud. Which they were. They all had fun anyway.

Madi shooting the 22

She thought she was pretty cool

Sami hanging out with Em

Em's turn

Jesi wasn't to sure at first. Then she loved it.

Kelly with Madi, Jesi, and his niece Maggi.

Our backyard is slowing coming together. We are almost done with phase 1 of 3. YEAH!!! Sami has loved playing in the dirt. She thinks she is big enough to help out and gets in the way A LOT. But its sure fun having her want to be with us.

Happy 10th Birthday Madison!

Madi woke up on her birthday to a huge surprise outside from Emily, Jesi, and our neighbor and friend Caitlin. They decorated our driveway with sidewalk chalk. Madi loved it.

Later that day, we went to Classic Fun Center for Madi's bday party. They all had a blast.

Sami loved being free to run around everywhere. She thought she was so big.

Madi got to spin the birthday wheel. She won a Vortex necklace that lights up. It was pretty cool.

Madison loves Peace and Hippies so she had to get a peace VW bug birthday cake.

Opening Presents.

The 4th of July.

This year we decided we didn't really want to fight all the crowds to go see the big fireworks, so we got together with the neighbors and lit fireworks in the street. There were 3 different families lighting them off at various places down the road so we had quite the show.

We started out with sparklers for the kids. They thought that was pretty cool.

Kelly & Jesi lighting sparklers.

Kelly's parents came up to share with us. Sami loved the lights.

but not being held down by Jesi......

she did let Madi hold her for a few minutes. But not long. She wanted to be wandering.

Em's ready for the bright lights.

Utah has always had a ban on any fireworks that left the ground. This year they changed the rules to allow anything that stayed under 150 feet off the ground. It made for some fun home fireworks.

I love the 4th.