A Festive Fourth

We hope everyone had fun with their 4th of July celebrations! We are blessed to live in this country and to have the freedoms we enjoy! And we were lucky t have Becky, Aubrey, and Parker with us to join in on our activities.

Natalie found a super yummy festive drink on Pinterest, sporting red, white, and blue in mason jars

 And who wouldn't love a festive red, white, and blue snack with strawberries, blueberries, and angel food cake drizzled with white chocolate? Yum!

We had several activities to keep the kids busy:

Eating donuts on a string...always fun to watch

Painting a "Proud to be an American" picture

Of course, Thomas's had to include Sonic the Hedgehog

 We let them cool off with the slip n slide and baby pool. We also played a little game of water balloon volleyball. It proved to be a dangerous game with little Parker running around our feet...I ran him over once. Poor guy!

Had a BBQ, unfortunately Andy and Natalie weren't able to stay for that

At night, we played glow-in-the-dark bowling (camera flash doesn't do it justice...it was a neat idea-glow sticks in partially water-filled soda bottles. Natalie put a lot of thought into this holiday fun. Thanks!)

And later, we went to Provo to watch the fireworks from the Stadium of Fire. Some day I would love to see that, but I loved watching the fireworks and amazingly enough, the traffic back home was not horrible! :) It was a fun day and a good time with family!

This is a picture from Thomas's last day of baseball. He is sure improving and was super proud to get another trophy! Way to go Thomas!