4th of July

First off we went to the parade in West Jordan with Brian & Elaine, Dan & Bridget and the Broodsbys. Below is a picture of McCall with Malinda...isn't she so cute with her little Aunt Jamima look!

Two walking advertisements for Aeropostal.
Conner is so cool in his shades!! I think he thinks he's a movie star, check out that look...too cute!
Everett and Ethan were in heaven playing in the dirt behind us all...parade, what parade?

The girls

Bree & Everett

After the parade we went to the Brooksby's place for lunch. I just had to post these pics of the babies.

Conner is so photogenic, he's a natural in front of the camera. What a fun little guy, we really enjoyed having them down for the 4th and will miss them when we make the move...we love you guys!!

Everett & Ethan playing on the swing. I had to post these two pictures, they are the best of buds and every time Ethan sees a picture of Everett he asks to go to his house.

another cute pic

Malinda has the most beautiful eyes and she is just a darling little girl!

Malinda with daddy

just swingin' in the backyard...oh look it's Brennen on the left, I don't know how they did it, but he and Preston managed to dodge the camera the whole day.

Devin harassing the cook...be careful Devin he's making your food!

I really hope that was his plate!

Elaine had a quilt set up in the garage for us to work on, and check it out Debbie all those years of making your boys quilt and knit and sew is paying off. I have to say that Elaine was very impressed, she had been working on this project for...well we'll just say a while and she was VERY glad to see it done.

Bridget with Baby Conner...he finally sacked out, what a trooper he was!
Brian started up some flames for the kids to roast marshmallows...they had a blast!!

Roasting

Ari's marshmallow worrier pose...you will now be seeing this in your yoga class.

What an interesting 4th of July

Ethan didn't know what to think about the parade, but he was so good, he had no desire to run out into the middle of the road (for all of those who knew Devin at that age at a parade...we would loose him often), Ethan was too intrigued with the ice chest we brought.

Devin took a very active roll in getting his candy...
while Brennen waited for it to come to him, but I can tell you that Devin didn't have any more candy than Brennen...was it worth all the energy?
Dan & Bridget decided to torture themselves (or entertain themselves) by coming along with us to the parade.

Warning: Do not continue if you have a weak stomach...we sure do.



First off, the other day Ethan was sick (and I mean the throwing up kind), then the next day he was fine, playing having a good old time. That next day again he is throwing up & he had the trots...this was Thursday and by that evening, he was fine. Today (Friday, the fourth of July) Ari woke up and just wasn't feeling great, but she wanted to be in the Parade, so we sent her off to wait in line with the other band members and we went to save our spots on Main Street (people had set up chairs the night before). About 1 hour before the parade was supposed to start we got a phone call from Ari telling us that she wanted to go home. I then went off to take her home. About 5 minutes after we got home Ari lost her lunch (or rather her breakfast which consisted of an omelet....yuck!!!). She started to get emotional because she wanted to be in the parade, so I told her that it was her call, if she really wanted to do it then she could (the only reason I said this is because when Ethan was sick, the only time he threw up was when he had food in his stomach and since she had little to none in there, I thought she would be fine for a while....and she was). After the parade Ari had a concert in the park but was unable to finish because of how she felt. After a while I realized that an "issue" I've been having that I thought was associated with my running is actually a bug that I can't shake and seemed to be getting worse, then Chris started making the comment that he's got a knot in his stomach and Brennen said that he keeps getting cramps. What a Day, Devin, Daniel & Bridget are the only ones feeling 100%. My cousin even called to see if I could go to the grocery store for her because she has Mono!!! Even though it was a little rough, it was still a good day.



Happy 4th everyone!

Here is a video of Ari with the summer band in the parade.