4th of July Fun!

Forgive this being out of order!

We had a great 4th of July with friends. We had a cornolio tournament. I'm not sure what it's called ANY where else, because I've never played it anywhere else, but it's basically a bean bag toss game. My team was the "youth and wisdom" team. We came in second place! not bad for having never played before! It was a great day topped off with wonderful fireworks.

Anyway, these are some fun pics from the day!!

The Birthday Present of Joy

Thank you to our parents who made this present possible! The kids LOVE it!!!

Cousins

These are just some fun pictures of the cousins. I wish it were all the cousins, but I'm missing some..

This picture doesn't describe how funny this was...Stacy was playing fly-up with the kids...my dad would throw it (to her) and then they would all CHASE her around the yard. It was great!

Pretty princess, Nyah

Enjoying some cake together

With Ben at Grandma and Papa Mo's house

Papa Mo took the boys for short little rides on the back of his motorcycle.

The Hill family and The Spotts family

With Pierce Man!

Malia...

Colton

Kyleigh

Amelia...she looks just like my sister

Spokane...

We went back to Spokane to visit our family a couple weeks ago. We had a lot of fun. It was a whirlwind to be sure, but these are just some highlights. If I could figure out a cool way to do the pictures like I've seen on other blogs I would do that, but it's late and I meant to post these two weeks ago!

The boys got new goggles and now need to wear them everywhere! This was at the airport the night we got back.

Micah and Grandma Pool watering the flowers

Our niece Nyah P

Fun in Coeur d'Alene

We got together with Elizabeth and pictured here are her twins...baby Eli was hanging back in his stroller. This is Grace and Isaac.

We had one slumber party with the Hill kids. This is Chris reading them all a story before bed.

Roasting marshmallows by the pool

Second day of the trip, Micah was getting up onto the diving board (they both LOVE jumping off it) and he tripped and gave himself quite a mark. It's healing nicely now.

My dad and Micah.

More marshmallows...with our friends, The Millers.

Noah and cousin Ben. They had so much fun together.

The boys swimming.

I took 200 pictures while we were in Spokavegas! I have many more of cousins that I will post next. Chris also played (and won!) in Hoopfest. So, when it's not midnight and I feel like I'm going to fall asleep on the keyboard, I will post them!!

Love to you all! Thanks for a great trip!