The 4th Celebrations

My thoughts have been elsewhere but we did have an awesome time celebrating the 4th this year. This is really long so either grab a snack and sit for a while or just skip to the pictures. That's what I sometimes do.
Keeper had Thursday and Friday off. He was supposed to be at Scout Camp but thanks to another leader staying the whole week he didn't have to go. (Alfonzo, if you read this, which I highly doubt, I owe you one.)
Thursday we went to Carson's ENT appointment. I've already blogged about all of that but it was really nice having Keeper along. He was able to ask his own questions and hear what the doctor was saying rather than second hand through me.
After that we headed over to my brother's house for games and dinner. This was a lot of fun! It is so hard getting to play game with 6 little kids around. The kids just played and were so good. Why can't it always be like that?!
After that we headed over to Keeper's city league basketball game. This was my first and maybe my last game to go to. It was fun watching him play and have fun but it was hard trapping 3 little kids in and keeping them all safe. I felt like everytime I looked up the other team had to ball. His team won that night so it couldn't have been too bad.
Friday morning we headed out to Schlitterbahn with my parents and my brother and his family. We had so much fun! The kids played all day long in the water. They loved it so much! I think we might need to take our kids every year. Here are some pictures from the day. (Thanks Celeste)
My dark little Park.

Carson's last time to eat Doritos for 3 weeks. Savoring the flavor!

Whoa! Talk about cheesey!

Not too bad for a swimming picture.

My brother and his cute family.

I love this picture! Camy with Grandma and Grandpa

My cute nieces, Kylie and Megan.

I love this picture of Meg. So cute!

I think we all felt like Carson at some point in the day.

We went out for dinner and Carson wanted the salsa on his chips. This is what he thought of it.

He was pretty hungry though.

On Saturday, we had a neighborhood parade in the morning. By the end of it Camy was being held by someone else in the ward, I was holding a crying Carson (I left his bike after the first corner we turned), and Parker's bike was loosing a training wheel and he was about to bite it everytime he turned. Sucess?! The kids liked the popsicles that we had after it was over.





We went over to some friends house for dinner and swimming in the evening. We had a lot of fun and the kids loved it but we were all tired by the time the weekend was through. Happy fourth of July!