4th of July Fun!

4th of July was a day full of family fun! Well, as much fun as we could have the weekend before the big move. The day started out with the ward pancake and freedom toast breakfast. Stephen ran around like a mad man helping the activities committee run the event so he didn't quite get into any photos. But we had fun and spent good time with good friends.....

Elder Allred (one of our favorites) and Sam were a team playing water balloon volleyball,

Lindsey was loved by Arhely and Dani and Sandra Hamblin.

Then after the breakfast we literally RAN home, but on church clothes and came back to the church to attend the baptisms of these great little boys, Chase and Jacob Barnes. These kids are awesome! They totally know the gospel and have been taught well! This is especially impressive seeing as though their parents were baptized a little over a year ago--a goldenly wonderful family!! We love the Barnes and are so glad to call them our friends.


Then later Grandma and Grandpa came over for a BBQ and we went to see fireworks. We'd never let Sam and Kaitlyn go see fireworks before because we thought they'd be scared and it always started a bit late but we napped them earlier in the afternoon and they were excited to go! Grandma was a good sport to stay at home with a sleeping Lindsey and Grandpa had to come along (he's a favorite you see...)

First stop: Sonic for milkshake treats. Kaitlyn wanted a strawberry one because it was healthy, Sam just got Chocolate!

YUM!

There was a free firework show not far from home and in order to avoid the crowds we parked and camped out at an LDS church parking lot just a mile away and we got out our camping chairs and....

Happy 4th of July!