4th of July and other Misc.

We are proud to be AMERICANS!

Once again we spent this holiday in Mattawa. The morning of the 4th we went to a flag raising and breakfast at the park in Mattawa. The scouts did the flag raising. It was such a beautiful morning!

My dad is the Young Men's president in their ward so he did the organizing of the flag raising. He also built this wheel the day before to make raising the flag a little easier for the scouts. We get our posing skills from him obviously.

Ashley and Darcy at the flag raising (with Brian in the background). The fire department handed these hats out to the little kids.

My parents' neighbors/friends the Gallaccis invited us all over for a barbeque and fireworks. The food was so delicious and we had lots of fun with everyone there.

Darcy LOVES watermelon and she definitely had her fill that day. If there's watermelon around it's hard to get her to eat anything else.

My dad always did this with us when we were little and it was fun to watch Darcy get to try it. She loved it as much as we always did. He holds onto her hands and feet at the same time and swings her down between his legs and then back up onto his head or either one of his shoulders. What a rush!

The Gallaccis had a bunch of tannerite (some type of explosive). They drove about a half mile away to blow it up but it was still so loud back at the house and the explosion was huge!

Drew and Brian went golfing earlier in the day and they pulled their clubs out again for a minute at the party and Darcy had to go get in on the action. (I think this area is so beautiful!)

They had quite the fireworks show! It really was great. I was worried about how Darcy would handle the noise, but she did really well. I covered her ears the whole time and if I took my hands off she would fuss a little but that was it. She didn't really care to watch the fireworks, but she sat there and took it at least. :)

Darcy has discovered the trampoline! She loves it and we love to watch her jump.

Another jumping pose.

Again.

My parents have this little pool in their backyard that we have been able to spend a little time in lately. The water is still pretty chilly so Darcy prefers to spend most of her time hanging out in her boat.

We have some dry patches in our yard where out sprinkler system hasn't been getting well enough. So we went and got a sprinkler to attach to the hose the other day to fix that problem and Darcy loves playing in the water. Here she is getting a drink from the sprinkler.

We also went and got some patio chairs and we got this little chair for Darcy from Walmart for $5. She loves it and I think it is so cute.