This may look like the 4th of July but it actually was "Littleton Main St Block Party" and to tell the truth it was more fun than the 4th. This happened earlier in June, which is why they could do the fireworks. No fires had started then.
This was a lot of fun. If the girls did push-ups then they got a free water bottle! This is pretty much what the push-ups looked like. Despite all of Uncle Johns hard work in teaching them the proper way to do push-ups. Daddy had to make up for all of them, but they got free water bottles
How cool is this. It may not smell much better but it looks more appealing when you have to use it.
Loved this game. I threw one and made it clean through the whole. Some times it pay to throw your shoes in the closet a lot! I got a nice prize for it!
Face painting!
The snow cones were great for the hot weather. Lana's FAVORITE flovor was tigers blood.
The fireworks were great! Then for our transportation we used the city bus line. The girls were in heaven the whole night was AMAZING.
So the fires out here have been pretty bad. We have a few fire fighters in the ward and one of them went out to Grand Junction to set controlled burns to help cut the fires off. We are grateful for what they do but the best part was his 7year old daughters testimony last Sunday. She explained that she loved the gospel and her family and then said "and I know if my Dad dies in the fires it was Gods plan and that I can see him again in heaven". Hilarious, Sad, and Truthful all in one punch. I love when this girl bears her testimony she is great!
Well like with all things they must come to an end. The rains came and the fires are ending, but when it rains it pours here. This is a video of our neighbors basement. Needless to say they had a problem. They called us late at night to help. It is all fixed now but wow it was crazy.
We went to a parade for the fourth. The girls loved getting lots of candy. They also got some free karate classes. They start those on Tuesday!
Later at the festivities some one gave us free tickets so the girls road in the wagon pulled by the colorful horses. We tested our speed at throwing the baseball too. Emma's fastest was 18mph. Not bad for a 5year old! Mine was 41mph, not going to lie I was disappointed. Looks like my pro years are over! :) Maddy tried hard but she is really good at fly balls.
The puppies were defiantly a favorite of the day. They begged to take one home, maybe someday.
Speaking of the 4th. "Knee high by the fourth of July" I think we are covered! This is our corn in the back yard!!!!
These are some pictures from the Maddy and Lana's ballet class. They had a lot of fun. Some friends from Randall's work even came to see the stars one week. These pics are from the last day of class so we were aloud in to watch the show.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
This was for our 6th anniversary! Yay us!!!! We had a wonderful evening at this restaurant. The food is amazing and funny enough we had the same waiter as last year. Whom by the way does a marvelous job. We had a three course meal that stuffed us to the brim, chatting while we cooked our food.
Isn't he so thoughtful to get me roses!
I made this jacket out of the shawl the night before and added the white panel to make it all modest, since it is a strapless dress! It is a gorgeous formal dress I got at savers for $10 that I thought, some day I will find an excuse to use it, and what a better event than to do so!
They threw this in because it was our anniversary! They were perfect!
Then when we got home we just relaxed and enjoyed a movie together. Every year just gets better!
The video speaks for itself, but here's how it all happened.
Last night, our neighbor came over and knocked on our door, yelling my name. He had us come out and look up in the sky. He really just wanted to make sure he wasn't just seeing a whole bunch of spots in the air. I was hesitant to tell him I saw the floating fireballs, just to confirm his suspicion that he was indeed crazy, but I didn't. This is what we saw ...
Hundreds of UFO's streaked across the night air, wreaking havoc on the local fauna. It was estimated that at least one person suffered from a severe heart attack, due to the shock that somebody would light fireballs, and then released them into the air, in the middle of a rain shortage.
The lights came floating over our heads for 20 minutes or so, maybe 1,500 feet up in the air, going wherever the wind decided to carry them. We had no clue what these things were ... until one of them caromed in between our town home complex, right in front of me, and landed, still aflame, in our neighbor's tree. Apparently these were special lanterns that were lit off at a pre-wedding for none other than Jimmer Fredette. What a great time of year to set these suckers off ... right in the middle of a drought.
These are supposedly frame retardant. If that's the case here, then I would hate to see what would flame resistant be ... you be the judge.
Anyway, we got it from our neighbor, took some pictures, and then sent them off to the local news station. Within a minute of our email, 9 News called us up to speak with Gwen. Two minutes after that phone call, another one promptly followed, this one asking if they could come over and interview he in a half hour!!! Of course we said yes. When the news man finally arrived, the interview lasted about 5 minutes.
It was great fun, and Gwen even got to be on the 5 O'clock news today. If anybody want this "party lantern," I'd be happy to sell it to you ... for an outrageous price of course!
It looks like the city of Centennial got Jimmered last night. Luckily, no fires were started.
This was a lot of fun. If the girls did push-ups then they got a free water bottle! This is pretty much what the push-ups looked like. Despite all of Uncle Johns hard work in teaching them the proper way to do push-ups. Daddy had to make up for all of them, but they got free water bottles
