4th of July

On the actual 4th of july we got up a little early and went to North English for a parade, lunch and some fire works at Aunt Trista's before coming home for some fire works of our own!!

waiting for the parade to start

 with grammie, great grandma and Trista

 we were happy and surprised to see Josi at the parade with Dave and Sue!!

 all american baby

" look the parade is starting"

 It's Wilford in the parade, on his tractor!

 Ean's cousin Casey Hinnah is running for Sheriff

casey, morgan and Harpyr

dashtyn sporting his casey for sheriff sticker!

LOOK!!! BIG tractors!:)

 chasen can hardly believe it!

some of those 'snap' fire works with Garin

 back home for sparklers, and other illegal fire works from nebraska :)

 watching the fire works in Mechanicsville from the porch while baby was sleeping. We were going to go but Dashtyn was really cranky, working on new teeth!

4th of July in Nebraska

Saturday we had the 4th of july at my moms

 these 2 are just to cute for words!!

 mom and chasen cut the letters and chasen told me they were U S and A and it stood for Nebraska States!

 we had water balloon fights
and mom hung this old window and we took photos in it...super cute

 a hanging sprinkler/shower

 grandpa with his grandson and great grandson's

 all the Grands and Great Grands

First fourth of July

 cute family photo!!

 smoke balls and tank races. Every year we have tank races...this year many of the tanks were duds and didnt move

 The winners 1st 2nd and 3rd

 sparklers so you dont burn your arm

 chasens first roman candle

 not sure if you can see but chasen's hands and cheeks are BLACK from fire works/those black snake things

 baby dash tried to sleep through the fire works...no luck!

 I got the kids glow in the dark necklaces and straws

 father daughter pyros!!!

On the actual 4th of July we went to North English.....more on that later but I gots to get to bed cause we are floating the river tomorrow!!! :)

5 Days in Nebraska

we left on wed night to go to nebraska, ean was doing my moms roof and a friends roof.
Thursday night we went to Uncle Jacksons baseball game but it was so hot Ean and I took baby Dash home after 25 minutes...Chasen stayed and ran the bases after the game 2 times with Lily and came home covered in dirt!!

grandpa, ean, chasen and lily

its too hot. Time to take baby home

Friday night we celebrated Aunt Ann's 40 1/2 birthday party

with a DJ and Block party

ann and ava

I think the kids had more fun then the adults dancing and running back and forth to the food table for cookies, pop corn, pizza and a million other goodies!!

granny and dashtyn

me and grandma jan

some unique human air guitar moves with mom and ava and ean and chasen

more dancing and having a dam good time!!!

lisa mom and alyssa...journey was playing

chasens dance moves were outta this world...videos to follow

grandpa alyssa and I

 dancing into the night
and the night ended with ean hula hooping

saturday we celebrated the 4th of july at my moms!

pictures to follow....

5 Months

 at 5 months Dashtyn can roll like a champ. sit up in his boppy and play with his toys
loves to chew on stuff becasue ... He has his FIRST tooth. it came a couple days before his 5 month birthday.

 He LOVES his brother and smiles with delight  when he sees him. He also squeels and screams when he sees him and is ALWAYS watching him play wanting to do what he does.
He loves to eat his cereal and eats it everyday around 5

he plays for longer periods of time

and today fell asleep playing!