Fourth Festivities

Warning: This is an extremely long catch-up post.

Even though it was a few weeks ago, I still can't stop thinking about how fun our fourth of July week was. Tia took two days off work (before that, he had only taken one day off since last August when the girls were born) and it was so fun to have him here during the day. Sara and her family came up and were here the first part of the week. Lilia's baby blessing was on Sunday, then starting the week we went up to Thanksgiving Point, ate lots of good food, went swimming, and had late nights playing games. It was such a perfect, fun week.

 

 

A few weeks before that, the girls were in the Freedom Festival baby contest. Not only was it fun that they won their category, they had so many activities for babies and toddlers. They enjoyed it a lot.

The 4th of July started out with the race. Barbara and Jessie convinced me to do the 10k with them and although I was really dreading it and it was really early to wake up on a holiday, I had so much fun! After that we watched the parade (the girls did NOT enjoy it :) then went home to a big breakfast that my mom made then took naps, yes everyone took naps, then went to lunch at the Dayton's. From there we went to a second lunch/dinner at Purcell's. It was so fun to be with everyone and just relax the whole day. That night we went and watched fireworks at a park. One of my favorite things about this fourth though, was waking up the next day to rain. It was perfect timing, so needed and definitely an answer to prayers. 

 On Friday we drove down to the cabin. Waldrons were so nice to invite us and we had so much fun there! It is really nice because it is like you are camping because you are so far from anyone else, but you get to sleep in a nice bed and go to the bathroom in a nice bathroom. :) 

 

 

Glorianna and Kaeo had their baby boy last night.  Baby Jethro is so sweet and is the smallest Purcell baby so far, 6 lbs, 10 oz. The girls will meet him for the first time later today.

 

 

We are really loving our summer but each day the girls are looking older and although they are becoming more and more fun, it is sad to see them grow so fast. They will turn one next month!