Catch up one-4th of July

Really? I'm I just posting about the 4th of July? How lame am I?

Well the 4th of July festivities this year were pretty mellow and fun. We started them out by going to the parade, I am a sucker for parades. I love them! My family is such a good sport to tag along with me as I make them suffer through them (Collin).

Coop at the parade...thats all folks. No more pics of the parade.

The next day we made our way to visit the family up at Russ and Hollie's cabin. We just spent the day there, but we were so happy we went. The kids loved it, especially Bode. We had four wheelers there and once he got on one, he literally would not get off. He loved them! Everyone took turns taking bode for a ride.

They had a swing hung from a tree that the kids played with the majority of the time. Peiton wanted to ride it so bad, but she just didn't get the hang of it and she was not heavy enough for it.

Grandma Bubba taking her turn with Bode. I am not sure what he just ate, but something orange... Cheeto's?

Holly taking the two besties for a ride in the hammock.

Nat and Stacy taking a ride in the hammock.

Nobody is taking me on a ride? Little pouty face.

Bode finally won, here comes grandpa bubba to save the day!

It was a great 4th of July, I am actually surprised that I remember, it was like 2 1/2 months ago.

4th of July!

Wow, I can't believe the 4th of July weekend was over a week ago, where is July going?? We did have a great 4th of July though. We weren't able to go camping with my family because of Bode's speech and Collin's job, but we were able to have fun anyway...although we did miss some of the VW fun.

We started the holiday off with going to the parade on Friday night...how I love a parade, I really do. I think they are so fun. My kids usually do well at them and just have a blast. We grabbed Subways and ate them while we waited for the parade to start. Bode crashed, which made it really nice so we did not have to chase him around. I woke him up in time for the horses and he always loves the horses. Coop of course had a blast trying to get as much as candy as possible, which I was happy about too, the more candy for him, the more candy for me...I can't get enough of the salt water taffy. Peiton was a big girl and sat in a little girl chair and enjoyed some candy of her own.

After the parade we headed over to our friends the Peck's and watched some seriously awesome fireworks! They were quite a show ;) Bode got sick of them after about 15 minutes and walked himself home, he thought a movie might be a little more interesting...crazy kid!


The next day we headed back over to the Peck's for a yummy 4th of July breakfast! They fed the neighborhood and it sure was yummy and a lot of work...thank you so much!
We decided to chance it and take all the kids to Ice Age 3, I was able to watch about 30 minutes of it and then Peiton had it so we left and did a little sight shopping at the local stores. Bode and Cooper loved it.
That night we headed to Heber for a great bbQand some more fireworks. Little did we know that we would be eaten alive my mosquito's. My grandparents live right by Deer Creek reservoir and they have a little canal that runs in the backyard that I think attracts all of the mosquito's, they were sure loving us that night. I think we all came home with 10+ mosquito bites and that was with repellent. But is sure was fun. It is always a good time and grandma and pa's!
That is about it for our 4th of July festivities, we all had a great time.

One HOT Fourth of July weekend!

We had a great 4th of July weekend, and I must say it was super hot! We started it out on Thursday night when we thought it would be fun to go to the parade. The parade was fun but it was sooo hot! We were faced directly towards the sun and I swear it was still 100 degrees at 7:00 at night. If you look closely at the pics of Cooper, you can see the sweat dripping from his face and his hair line is drenched. Collin and I were just thinking "we are gonna give our kids heat stroke!" But once the parade started going, you had more to think about then the heat and we ended up having a great time.

On the Fourth we spent the morning hanging out at home and getting the kids all napped up for our fun evening. We went over to Collin's parents at about 3:00 and the festivities began. They had their water slide blown up, a pool, and Kelly and Mat brought a bounce house, the kids were in heaven! We played and played until we were starving and had to stop to eat some yummy grub. There is nothing better than a big ole' hamburger on the 4th of July...and it was delish!
Nat, Court, Nicky

Peiton, Holly, Aunt Emeline, Grandma Ruth, Kelly

Collin and I were in charge of putting a few challenges together for everyone to participate it.

1st Challenge: Relay race- hop in pillow cases to Sports Court, make 2 shots outside of the key, make a bubble with bubble gum (hard), hop back in pillow case.

2nd Challenge: Do a triceps hold sitting on a chair with legs up.

3rd Challenge: Everyone had to put together the same puzzle..fastest wins!

4th Challenge: You got a bag of 20 large marshmallows the person who could eat the most in 1 minute wins.

5th Challenge: Huge water balloon toss.

6th Challenge: Run back and forth dunking a sponge in a pool of water and running it back to a empty bucket. The one to get the most water in their bucket in 2 minutes wins.

Everyone had a great time. The Kunz's ended up being the champs! Go Kunz's!

After the challenges some of us roasted marshmallows and we had some yummy cake from "Nothing Bundt Cakes." When then thought it was dark enough for our firework show. Cooper was so excited to see fireworks, he was talking about it all day. Cameron did a great firework show for us. By the end of the show, we were all pooped, Bode was asleep and I was about gone too. Off to home we went for a good night rest. Thanks for the great time Holly and Charlie, you always make it so much fun!

On Saturday night we had a fun time at our friends The Jones' for a barbecue and fireworks. When we first got there we were about ready to leave...Bode was having a moment, a big time melt down and there was no way we were sticking around with him acting like that. I decided to throw a hot dog in his face and that kid will do anything for a hot dog. After he ate it, or both of them, he was one happy kid and the rest of the night went smoothly until he decided he was way too tired to function. We always have such a great time with our fun neighbors.
Thanks to everyone that made our holiday superb!