Fun on the Fourth

Yesterday was great. Hanging out all day and watching the kids have fun with the fireworks and sparklers when the sun went down. Rye had a blast with her cousins and Jo experienced her first sparkler and all the pops and bangs that go along with this holiday. Here are some fun pics from the day.
During the day we hung out in the house while the bigger kids played outside. Jo and Zeke had some time together. They interact a lot and seem to enjoy each other.
This is Jojo's tongue thing. She is always sticking her tongue out, whether it's like this or she has her binky in & pushed out just enough to get her tongue out while the binky is still in...does that make sense? I'll have to try and get a picture of it.

These two are so cute together. They take turns man handling each other.


Just added this one in so you can see her top teeth. Number 6 is on it's way.
The adults enjoyed the night too. My brothers in law, Rick & Derek, took care of lighting everything off.



The kids enjoying the sparklers...some were a little more wary than others.




Heather took a lot of the fireworks in action pictures.Watching the bigger fireworks that were farther away The girlies The dudes
Jo's first look at sparklers. She couldn't take her eyes off them. She was very good.


Some pics that turned out really cool. The kids with sparklers and enjoying the fireworks.



It's like these that I dislike living the military life style. I wish I could have more random days like these for no reason at all, with all of my family there. We had such a good time, I wish Eric could have been here to enjoy it with us.

Da' Beach

All of us sisters took a drive out to a beach called Point No Point. I don't know much about it except that it's sandy and about an hour away. We had a really good time and I'm sure we'll make anohter trip out there before we leave here. Here are some pics of the day.

Rye lookin' fly in Aunt Jenni's shades

Letting Jo feel the cold, cold water

Trying to get a decent pic of the 3 of us....didn't really work

Joey Jo, first time in the sand...she dug it



Ryan's sand castle
The kids trying to save the sand castle from the tide

playing in the sand

making sand angels

Pretty Pics

The talented Cindy (Mom's neighbor) took a bunch of pics of all the kids outside. I'm not gonna post them of all the kids, just trust me when I say they're GORGEOUS! I thought I'd just post the ones of Ryelie. There are so many amazing ones on there, the lady has a gift. She is nice enough to do some of me and the girls before we leave here so I'll post those when we get them done. So here are some pictures of Rye.