July 4th Celebrations

On the July 4th the kids and I were kinda just on our own, since Matt was working. The Keller family was planning a get together for most of the day and we decided to join in on their breakfast part of the day. We had omlets, that you cook in a freezer bag and boil over the camp stove, pancakes, fruit, and sausage. It was delicious, as always!! We never go to a Keller function and leave still hungry or dis-satisfied with what was served. There is always something yummy to eat! We had a fun time visiting and hanging out with them for a few hours. After we left we came home and started packing for our Williams family reunion that was starting the next day. The kids played outside with the nesighbors kids and played in the pool. I honestly don't remember what we ended up doing for dinner that night, but we did watch fireworks with my parents and then watched the Blackfoot fireworks from our house. We had a good day, it was very very hot but we had a fun time just relaxing and spending time together.

July 2nd??

Matt drew the short straw and had to work a double on the 4th of July this year. Bummer! So we decided that we would do our little 4th of July celebration on the 2nd, when Matt was home. Parker was so excited to do fireworks this year, in fact I thought he was a little too excited about fire and the fireworks! I decided to wait and buy fireworks right before we were going to do them, so they wouldn't be a temptation to Parker, he could hardly stand waiting the few hours between when I bought them and when we were going to light them. I ended up spending about $50 and got a pretty good variety of fireworks for our little family. The kids loved the snaps and sparklers. Even Paxten was able to get the snaps to pop and he did do a few sparklers with the help of me and Matt. Parker's favorite are the little bombs that snap, crackle, and pop. I love the spinning flowers and the last one that we watched that was called a fish bowl. Anyways we waited as long as Parker would let us, about 9:00 before we started lighting them. It was still light outside. The kids had a great time and loved every second of watching the fireworks. They sure don't last as long as you think they will and $50 didn't seem to go that far once we were done, but I refuse to spend any more than that!!

4th of July

 

For the 4th the boys, and Charyn went early in the morning golfing and then Mom, Paxten, Paige and I met them in Idaho Falls and we went to Five Guys Burgers and got burgers and fries to go. We went to a park and have a little picnic in the shade and visited. Paige wasn't feeling well all of the sudden and ended up throwing up a few times, I think she had a little stomach bug, that Parker got a few days later. So Paige wasn't feeling like herself during the picture taking. I am lucky that Matt will appease my wishes to take lots of pictures and that he is willing to be in them. Charyn had a hard time convincing Mike to be in a family picture and my dad doesn't like to do pictures either. So I am glad that Matt likes (or will at least he pretends to) to be in the pictures. We had a fun time being together and celebrating this wonderful day.

Later that night we had a BBQ at my parent's house. My Grandpa and Grandma Williams came into town along with my cousin Lauren and her husband Rhett and their two boys. We had a fun time with them eating and lighting fireworks. That was Parker's favorite part about the day. All day long he asked when we were going to light the fireworks. We finally gave in about 8:00 and started doing them, it was still light outside, but I couldn't take him asking me anymore. He makes me a little nervous because he is such a pyro. He isn't the least bit scared or nervous around fire. I am sure going to have to watch that boy carefully and keep the matches locked away. He had a blast watching the fireworks and I am sure that was the funnest thing he did all day! Paige fell asleep during the show, so I know she still wasn't feeling well. But we had a good time and enjoyed being able to celebrate the holiday together!

Holiday weekend

So I am really trying hard to keep my blog updated, sometimes the kids try harder to keep me from doing it. I have thought about my blogging and have realized that it is a sort of journaling, a way to preserve memories and thoughts. So with that realization, I really need to try harder to write more so I can keep a good "Journal". Well I am finally putting up pictures from the 4th of July. They aren't the best pictures, but I have decided with little kids it is sometimes better to just have them in the picture than not, even if they aren't smiling. Parker did not want to be in the picture. He was more interested in playing. We had a good day with family. It wasn't too exciting, we got together and had a barbeque and then visited for a little while. Matt and I left early and came home to just relax. I didn't even watch fireworks (how unpatriotic am I). Matt had to work all day on Saturday and I was left with the kids all day long!!!! Those days seem really long. But I survived and the rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful. One of these days when we aren't living paycheck to paycheck and don't have student loans, I think we will do some traveling and have a lot more fun. Meanwhile we are living day to day and try to enjoy the little moments in life. I have worked on a few scrapbooks online and I am tring to catch up on the many pictures I have. I can't wait to get the final product in the mail to see how they turned out. I really do feel blessed to be a wife and mother and that I am able to stay home with my children and hopefully one day they will realize that as a blessing as well. I am grateful to Matt for all his hard work and for the things he provides our family with each day. We really are a lucky family.
I was reading a friends blog and found an article that talked about a lady that didn't believe in procreation. She thought that having children was bad for the environment and believed by not having children she is doing her part to save the environment. Well let me just say that she is missing out incredibly on one of the greatest miracles in life. I am so grateful to have experienced 2 great miracles in my life so far!!! And without procreation there will be no people to inhabit the earth anyways, so what good does that do. This doesn't mean that I don't agree with conservation efforts and people doing their part to stop pollution and live greener lives. I just think that you have to teach your children while they are young to not be wasteful and that will save many gerations in years to come. (I hope this all makes sense, if not you can skip it. I am just rambling to myself.) I am blessed by the Lord to be able to have children and I will do my part to raise them and love them to the best of my ability.