Our 4th of July

I'm just getting to posting pictures of our 4th of July, I'm kinda late.....
We had a good day. We didn't have a huge celebration like some people do. It has always been kind of a family day for us just the kids and Kelly and me. Of course as you know Kelly is in Alaska this year so he didn't get to join in the day.

I had so many pictures from the day and couldn't decide which to post so I have most of them here. I broke them up into a collage of each of the kids themselves and one of pictures of all of them and our fireworks.



We got started kind of late. The kids and I wanted to sleep in a bit and then the kids needed to get some chores done that they had been told to do the day before but didn't. When we got done with that i called my brother to see if he wanted to go to the Sandy River with us.



We stopped at the store to get some water, pop, ice and a few snacks for our time there. Of course they were completly out of ice and I had to stop at 3 different stores to find some!



It has been very warm here for the last week so the kids had a great time at the river. Madison is not so much a water baby as the other kids she is a little more fearful and doesn't leave the shore line much and stayed very close to us the whole time. I actually like that about her. Especially since she is still little. The other kids though have no fear even on a river so notorious for drownings that they have lifegaurds and free life jackets for people to wear. My kids all had their own though.



We left the lake at close to 8 that evening and went back to our house with my brother to barbeque hamburgers for the kids and steaks for my brother and I.



After the barbeque we got out our own fireworks and hand our own firework show. The kids enjoyed that of course to and I decided to let the boys try out lighting some of the smaller fireworks themselves. They had been begging me to let them do some this year so I guess I gave in. It actually went really well and the boys were being very responsible and neither of them got burned. My brother did though but he is an adult and wasn't paying attention. Luckily I still have tons of the prescription burn cream from when Izzak burned his leg so I doctored him up and he was fine. If you look up at the collage of Madison though you may notice she is kind of hiding behind chairs. She has never been a huge fan of fireworks. She like to watch but she likes to be behind things. Last year was the first year we were able to get her out of the house. Before that she would watch from the window inside. She will still run into the house every once in awhil.

Over all it was a good day and we had fun with the kids. It's funny that in the last week we've done fun days like this with my brother and my brother in law. We don't really do a lot with either one of them normally but I think that they are realizing we are actually going to move away and wanting to spend more time with us. Its nice but I wish they had been more willing to do things with us before they knew we weren't going to be around. Also I have yet to hear from my fil since Kelly left and he only lives about 15 minutes away. I'm not sure why this irritates me I don't really want to spend a lot of time with them any way but I would think they would want to see their grandchildren more before they are gone. Kellys dad hasn't called him yet either and Kelly tried a couple of times but only got voicemail.

On another note. I turned in my resignation from my job yesterday! My last day is August 3rd. I finally have something to really count down to and it felt great. I also informed our landlords of when we plan to leave and when our official last day would be. I had it go through to August 17th because that is when our next rent check would be due. Kelly is wanting to be out by the 13th but this way we have a few days extra and we don't have to try to figure out what the rent would be with a few less days.

Wow its seems like its really going to happen so much more now. I'm a little nervous and excited at the same time!