After reading my short little post, if you'd like to see more about our festivities, I highly recommend seeing the awesome post that my sister in law Meghan did on her blog HERE.
On Saturday July 2nd, we had our traditional family reunion in Heber City with Trevor's mom's side of the family. I didn't take any pictures, but we ate lots of good food and the kids all got to have fun collecting candy that uncle Shane shot from his candy cannon. Always a good time.
On Sunday July 3rd, we ate dinner at Trevor's parents house and then all had family pictures made. These pictures turned out awesome! And they are also all on Meghan's blog. But here's one for my blog and for posterity (so you can see my little baby bump):
On Monday, July 4th (my day off work woo hoo!) Trevor and I had a lazy morning, but we joined everyone again in the early afternoon for a delicious barbecue and then to go to the park up Springville Canyon for the kids to play and for the boys to have a homerun derby. Of course, it's always more fun when everyone gets to participate! :) Please enjoy my very low-quality collages of the event:
The boys pitching and batting:
Steve was the victor this year. Trevor was a bit ashamed to say he tied for last, especially because he was the reigning victor from the last homerun derby, two years ago. I guess a king can't keep his crown forever, right? ;)But he sure did look like a winner when he was helping Kelan, my youngest nephew, take a few aided steps. Getting in some practice before our little man arrives. There's nothing more attractive than a man acting like a daddy. Hmm.... maybe those are the pregnancy hormones talking :D
The night of the fourth we shot off fireworks. The kids all loved to sit on the curb and watch them and they just looked so cute all lined up:
And here's another collage of some of the fireworks we shot off. The fireworks setting on my little camera isn't bad. But seriously, check out Meghan's blog! Her pictures are AH-MAZING! *Sigh* One day I'll have a camera like hers and hopefully the picture-taking skills to go with it.
Anyway, it was definitely a riotous night to say the least. The first firework that we shot off that went up in the air decided to tip over after the first or second shot, and started shooting up the street and then right towards all of us! Needless to say, everyone began running and scrambling away. Somewhere in the process of getting up off the sidewalk and trying to run, I fell back down again, scraping up my elbow and putting a few small scratches on my camera. Lame :( Haha. Oh well. I completely blame it on pregnancy and me not realizing that my center of balance is a little off these days :) That will be one moment I'd like to replay in heaven one day and just look back and laugh! It bet it looked hilarious. And I only say that because we all came out unscathed (well, mostly...). If anyone had been hurt, it probably wouldn't be quite as funny, now would it?Happy Fourth of July! I hope yours was grand as well. Thank heavens we live in a FREE COUNTRY! :)
I like your low-quality collages! Sounds like you had fun on the 4th. I wish I was going with you to NC!
ReplyDeleteAlso, that's funny that you said you are going to replay that moment in life in heaven, because i always thought that heaven is like that too! I want to prove eric wrong all the times he says he is right, not very righteous of me, but oh well.
Your collages looked totally awesome! I always feel like mine look small and lame too, but they really are super cute. Nice job.
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