Happy Independence Day!

It was a gorgeous 4th of July! We went to the wading pool in Millwood, played at the park, had lunch and naps and then a great BBQ with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids colored flags, we made a 'jello poke' cake and decorated it with blueberries and strawberries to make it a 'flag cake', and had our mini fireworks display out in the driveway.

We all had matching flag t-shirts ($3 at Walmart), and so we took some cute pictures of the kids (with our camera, so you won't be seeing them here yet), and then a couple of cute family pics as well. The kids did sparklers and pop-its, had baths and were in bed just in time for Mommy and Daddy (that's us) to take off to watch the big display downtown.

Uh, in Spokane it is actually illegal to set off fireworks, so our little display only included things that we figured didn't count because they didn't shoot up into the air. Let me tell you, im-press-ive. Yeah.

But the downtown display was awesome. We found a large patch of empty grass on the Riverpoint Campus of EWU downtown and had it all to ourselves. Then we jogged back to the car and beat the rush getting out of Dodge. BONUS! It was a great night.

Hope all y'all had a safe and happy 4th too!

Some of what we've been doing so far this summer...

Playing peek-a-boo.

Riding in the Big Red Car.

Playing with tops Grandma and Grandpa bought in Greece.Playing the accordian.

Bouncing on the trampoline with the sprinkler underneath.
Learning to ride bikes.Just being cute.

Eating chocolate doughnuts. Mmmm, doughnuts.

We also went to HoopFest - the world's biggest 3 on 3 basketball tournament that's held right here in Spokane. While we were downtown we rode the carousel and went on the big red wagon slide. We even took pictures, but of course they're on our camera and we don't have a way to put them on my parents computer. You can obviously infer that these pictures were taken with my parents camera.

You're so smart.

The last thing to mention is that CADEN IS NOW OUT OF SCHOOL. We had his endoftheyear picnic at the sprinkler park in Liberty Lake. It's a lot of food, people, and fun. I'm so glad that school's out!

Oh, so's Caden.