A Happy 4th of July...

So the 4th of July (I know I'm a little behind) was a FANTABULOUS day. We 1st got up and went down to Lehi to go with the Mortensen's to a ward breakfast, kids parade and flag ceremony. It was really nice. The kids had fun eating pancakes for breakfast, making the crafts they had available and then riding their decorated bikes/scooters in the parade around the ward building.

Macee

Tyler & Maddy

Macee's cute 4th of July hair-do.

The kids waiting for the flag ceremony to start. Very patriotic!

Then after the breakfast we went to Devon's parent house (Grandma & pa Mortensen's) house to swim and have a BBQ for lunch. It was tons of fun. A lot of family came and joined in the fun.

Tyler curled up on a bench and fell asleep after swimming all morning ad then eating lunch.

Maddy is such a little fish... I wanted her to look at the camera... but she didn't want to.

Macee has figured out how fun it is to jump off the rock formation... she realized it's not too scary! Yea Macee!!!

Then after we wore all the kids out we went back to our house to play games... notice the Catan board? We had a great time playing it. Before starting to play we heard Chuck and Devon making noise in the dining room... we noticed they were fighting over a chair. We (Fawn & I)thought... "What's that all about?" Come to find out, that was the winner's chair, so they both wanted that spot. Chuck actually ended up with it (Chuck is one strong man... hefty, hefty, hefty!) so we played games and ate leftovers for dinner and had a great time.

Our Catan board...

Chuck & Devon... (Chuck's shirt says... "I'm Grumpy because you're Dopey" I got it at Disneyland for him. He is always looking for new Grumpy shirts.)

Then we were debating if we were going to go to the fireworks because our usual spot was not doing fireworks this year. The weather was getting a little stormy, so we decided to give the kids their glow necklaces and we had some poppers and things you throw on the ground that explode and they had fun doing those and then we went in, put on a movie for the kids and played another game and that was the end of our night. We had a great 4th of July! Thank you Mortensen's for the fun day!

Playing with the popping things.

All the kids (on the bench, L to R Damon, Tyler, Jonny & Maddy. In the front, Gunnar, Jack & Macee)