Side Walk Painting

Here's another neat-o gift from Aunt Cindy.  She brought the kids sidewalk paint, which is way better than the chalk.  I mean, you can't smush chalk between your fingers and toes and smear it on the ground.  The kids had so much fun, though.  In order start from top to bottom.

Drew the Master Chef

My Aunt Cindy is here this weekend visiting, and she brought some pretty nifty gifts for the kids. She brought Drew this really neat Emeril cooking set, which has little tiny kid size cooking untensils that you can actually cook with. So, as soon as we got home Drew had her heart set on cooking something for her daddy. We pulled out the muffin mix and she baked her own little tiny muffins. She was so proud, and absolutely adorable in her outfit!

The 4th of July

Here are our pictures of the 4th of July...finally! I took all kinds of great video with my other camera, but all I had in it was the disc and no memory stick. So, today all we have is pictures. Anyways, we got together with my side of the family, the husbands, boyfriends, and other friends. We had a pretty big group. We took the kids bikes and let them ride around while we cooked and sat around and talked waiting for the fireworks. The kids loved the fireworks. Most of the afternoon, Evan was expecting fire trucks. Andy took his little grill and we had hamburgers and hotdogs. It rained for a while, so a lot of our time was spent under the awning we brought, which Andy tied a tarp to and then put the other end in Erin's car door. We didn't have anything to stake it down with. You can see Evan under the tarp and the places where it's sagging from being full of water. We also did sparklers at the end, which was great, until it starting pouring again. I think the cosmic forces had the rain stop just long enough for the fireworks. It was a pretty fun afternoon and evening, though.