The Fourth of July

Here we are on the 4th of July in our fancy T-shirts. I made these from Family Fun and you can find the directions here: http://jas.familyfun.go.com/crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=12193

We went to the 4th of July pancake breakfast where Ben helped cook.
Here's Evan waiting for some pancakes.

Benjamin must have thought there was a contest because I seriously think he ate 10 pancakes!!!

Jeffery was with us and here he is entertaining Matthew.

Dad and Jacob eating a yummy breakfast.

In the afternoon, Benjamin got to attend a classmates birthday party. Here is the boys against girls water balloon fight.

Benjamin and friends enjoy the birthday cake.

This was a cool little contraption. It was a ball that you put a water balloon into and then when the timer went off, the balloon popped and the kid holding it was out. A twist on hot potato. Apparently they got it at Kohl's.

More water balloons!

In the evening, we hung out in the backyard. Here are Jeffery and Benjamin fighting with light sabers.

Here is Benjamin with some sparklers.

Evan thought he was pretty awesome with two!

Benjamin holding his. Jacob wouldn't touch them.

We set off some small fireworks and the kids had fun.

Here are the 4 of them anxiously watching what will happen. After the kids went to bed (except Benjamin), we sat on our deck and were able to see quite a few fireworks in the comfort of our own backyard. There is a military base a couple of miles down and we had a great view!


All in all, it was a good day!

Fourth of July play date

We had fun eating snacks and we made the 4th of July shirts that you will see in the actual 4th of July post.

Jacob at the Store

I am way behind on the blog but I will catch up! I just had to share this cute little incident that happened yesterday. I took Jacob to the grocery store and he thought he was so cool being a big kid and walking with me and helping to put things in the cart. We got up to the checkout counter and he asked the checker her name. She said "Emily. What's your name?" He responded "Jacob" and then holding his hand out to introduce me he said, " And this is my friend, Momma!" She just thought he was the cutest thing and at the moment, he was!