Happy Independence Day!

Another Wonderful 4th!

We celebrated the 4th of July with my parents, Natalie, Chris and Todd, our friends, Aaron and Becky, their kids Alex, Matthew, Vanessa and Jacob, and Natalie's friends Mike and Shari and their boys, Dillion and Dewey.

Last year my Dad started a new tradition, a watermelon eating contest! All three of my kids were so excited to participate, our friends kids on the other hand were not as enthusiastic but for the most part they were still good sports. Austin won the older kids, and Shailyn won the younger group! Because of this, Grandpa Williams told her that she will have to compete with the older group next year. Matthew lost his tooth during the contest! Too Funny!!

The kids all enjoyed swimming, and a barbecue (Chicken and ribs, my Dad's favorite). Then we had a wonderful firework show put on by Tim, Austin and Todd!

Dance, Dance, and FUN!!

Well, I have been lagging on posting anything new. And of course we have a ton of stuff going on! The girls had their dance recital on June 12th and both of them were fabulous! Grandma and Grandpa Williams came to watch their wonderful performance, Thank you so much for being there for them!

Dancing to Isn't She Lovely

Shakin it to Proud Mary!

They also performed Isn't She Lovely at Taylorsville Dayzz on June 27th! Tim's friend Joe, Shailyn's friend Danielle and her Mom Joyce, Tammi, Tamisha, Kyra, and Brooklyn came to support them ~ Thanks guys, it really means a lot to have you all there!

After dancing, of course they had to enjoy the festivities at T-ville Dayzz. Let me just start by saying I am so glad I spent 2 hours doing hair so they could go into a dunk tank and then get smothered in bubbles!! Okay, now that I got that out of the way...

Kaysie - She wasn't even sitting in the dunk tank long enough for me to get a picture before Austin successfully dunked her!

Shailyn - After this, Shailyn was freezing the rest of the afternoon! She couldn't wait to get home to get into some warm comfy clothes!

Austin - Of course started the whole ordeal with the dunk tank, his sisters didn't think it was nearly as fun as he did. He wanted to keep going back for more!

We all had so much fun!

After we got home, and got cleaned up we had a barbecue with Tim's friend Joe. After dinner we went to kid's school and watched the fireworks! What a brilliant idea that was! All the excitement of fireworks without the chaos! I think this will be a new tradition.

Shailyn didn't want to come with us to watch the fireworks, this was Austin's attempt to make her join us! It ended in a pillow fight, it was quite hilarious.

Tim left for Rock Springs Monday morning so Monday night I took the kids swimming, and then Austin wanted to go back and watch the fireworks! Again, we headed over to the school and enjoyed another lovely night of fireworks!