Independance Day

We kicked off or Independence Day holiday by joining a run/rally for a local fallen soldier. Izzy Obryan, he left a wife and one year old son. Sg. PJ Kellogg ran from Newburn Tn to Jackson Tn, 50 Miles! Matt and Aaron ran the last 8 miles with him and the kids and I joined them to walk the last mile. It was a wonderful experience! After the run we had some barbque, bonus here was all sales went to a scholarship fund for the Obryan boy! For the weekend festivities I got us all new flag shirts from Old Navy, it was awesome because they were only $5 and for each one purchased the are sending one to troops!

We had been out in the heat for around 2 hours at this point, it was starting to wear on the kids! But they were good sports and hung in there!

Later in the day we went to a Jaxx game with the Raabs, Yarbroughs, and the Cygans. It was a lot of fun and Ben was a sport! We even made it all the way through the fireworks!! All and all it was a successful celebration weekend!

Because I can not resist

I just thought she was especially cute this day! So enjoy!

The Streak

What can I say... I let him run around in his diaper all day most days because it is sooo blasted hot! Well, on this day he took it off while I was busy in the kitchen and went for a naked horse back ride! Good thing he has a saddle!!

Apples

Clara LOVES food! She is getting tired of just soupy strained foods, but she has NO teeth! This is odd for me because Ben broke his first tooth on the first day of his 5th month! and then he got 3 with in the next 6 weeks! Last week I sliced an apple nice and thin and took the peel off. She really liked gnawing on it! When Ben found he there were sliced apples, he had to have some too! They are soo cute!

First Stake Youth Dance

A couple of weeks ago Matt and I helped Aaron and Rachel chaperon/DJ a stake dance for the youth. Originally Melissa was going to keep the kids for us, but then schedules changed and she had to be at the dance also. We decided to just take the kids with us and see what happened. It was A Lot of fun!! Ben was doing the conga, and break dancing! He had a group of kids cheering him on as he busted a move and did some "mixing" unfortunately I have no photos of that. But this is him crashed out in my bed at 9am the next morning! yup he is still in his clothes! The kid parties hard!! In contrast to Ben's exciting and very active night, Clara ate some dinner, laid down on her blanky and promptly went to sleep at normal bedtime!! She is sooo sweet. She played with some toys for the first hour we were there before the dance started. Then I gave her a bottle and a jar of food, changed her diaper and set her back down with her toys. She acted sleepy so I laid her down and gave her her favorite blanky. Next thing we knew she was out!! she was laying on the stage behind the speaker and slept there for the entire dance! she only woke up briefly when I transported her to the car! Do I have awesome kids or what!!