5th of July Celebration

Bossy loves the month of July. She always has; the parades, the fireworks, everything. That's why she and Gamer decided that if we were going to small town Utah for the 4th, they would have another celebration on the 5th.

We started the evening with a barbecue.

Then we played lawn games. Drama Queen beat both me and my sweetie in a rousing game of Yahtzee played with 4-inch wooden dice.

There was a watermelon seed spitting contest (they are still arguing over who won...), and lots of fireworks!

Thanks, guys, for a terrific party!!

Happy Independence Day!

We had a great time celebrating the birth of our country! Because there were no parades this year, my sweetie's sister decided to make her own family parade and she invited us to come. 

There weren't very many of us, but we had so much fun covering about six blocks of my sweetie's hometown, doorbell ditching treats and watermelons.

We had Bossy's boys with us and it was our job to keep an eye on Skittles as he rode his little powerwheels 4-wheeler. After the parade was over, we had a barbecue at my SIL's house.

The grownups spent plenty of time visiting while the kids played games.

We got the very last hotel room near the park so we could watch the fireworks show put on by the city.

Happy 4th of July!

God Bless America and please keep us safe and healthy.

Our Last Full Day With Twizlet

Wednesday was a full and amazingly fun day as long as I could keep my mind off the fact that it was the last day we would spend with our darling little granddaughter for a long time.

As many of the kids as could manage to get off work and join us made the trip to Lagoon. We were a group of 12 including those who live here, Taco and Burrito, Drama Queen, Crafty's boyfriend, and Twizlet. It was the first time we had ever taken Twizlet and at first she was a little nervous about the rides.

I couldn't even get her to drive a little car by herself!! It seemed that if she went with someone, like Baby Doll, she was fine, no matter how big the ride.

Soon she discovered that the rides were fun! She went on the teacups with Scout.

She always loves the carousel!

This was her very favorite ride both with Baby Doll and then later on with Taco.

She rode the little boats just like her mama did when she was a little girl.

We hadn't planned to spend our entire day at Lagoon. Our reservations were for when it opened and we didn't leave until they shut down all the rides. She just kept running from ride to ride until it was finally time to go home.

Almost Time to Leave

We have had so many going away parties (and other parties) as the time inches closer and closer for Teach and her family to leave us. On Friday night, we got together for a spa night. My sweetie ordered tons of pizza and we had both guys and girls here. He also flooded the sandbox and they had so much fun playing in the water!

Curly and Baby Doll with my sweetie, Skittles, and Twizlet in the back

Skittles

Then on Saturday (after the dance performance, but we will talk about that later) Beauty and The Beast hosted a game night. Baby Doll and I offered to watch all the little kids and that included playing with toys and swimming with them in the hot tub.

Little Warrior, Twizlet, and Little Squire

Little Warrior, Twizlet, Skittles, and me

Then on Sunday night we had our monthly birthday party (that also turned into a going away party of sorts when Princess and her family drove up and stayed in their car, but took a few minutes to say goodbye to Teach). It was so fun watching Skittles open his gifts!! He is just so excited about things. His favorite was the bag full of percussion instruments, but he also loved the cars.

And Bossy loved the fireworks quilt we made for him over spring break.

I know, you thought we were done...

On Monday, Teach invited me to go along with her little family to the aquarium and then out to lunch. It was own private moment when I could spend time with my little cuties alone.

And then finally, on Tuesday night, Drama Queen had everyone over for hawaiian haystacks and a movie. We are just going to miss this little part of our family so much! It will be the first time anyone has gone so far away without an exit date of when they will return to us. We are all feeling withdrawal ... and they aren't even pulling away until Thursday morning.