Fourth of July leftovers

No. We aren't still eating leftover food from the Fourth of July. But I am still blogging some leftover photos... check it out:

Mommy's favorite

Black Snakes

Back when he had long hair...

They like to get on the roof for fireworks

This was when Daddy saw some fireworks go wrong and a small grass fire start
(everyone was ok!)

We went to Aunt Cathy's on the fifth of July to visit our family:

Titus is the greeter!

Brinley and Oliver

Ti and Ryan

Later that evening, Daddy and Titus took a little snoozer:

Little Miss Jealous had to get in on the action. :-D

Soooo... perhaps we can get a little more caught up now?


HAHA... yea right!

Another First!

He hasn't done it since then, but this morning he was talking to Mama and--

But I have a serious problem, folks. Just look at that picture! My little baby boy is growing up. HELP! He looks so big!

This is his mischievous look

Well I'll just focus on sqeezing this cutie all day tomorrow in hopes of slowing down this "growing up" he insists on. :-D

Aiyanna's Birthday Party

Last week we celebrated one of Brinley's VERY BEST friend's birthday! Her party was at the Big Apple... it was SO MUCH FUN! Check it out:

So pretty!

Brinley and the beautiful birthday girl

Oh Brinley....

Randy was in charge of the "Big Guns"

Tammie's gonna kill me for this one :-)
(the little girl in front is Alyric... Aiyanna's friend from St. Louis!)

Brinley got scared of the loud guns
so she found her daddy and some chocolate!

Aiyanns is so beautiful!

Cutting her cake

Brinley approves.... DELISH!

"See the green, Mommy?"

We are so thankful for beautiful, Christ-loving friends like Aiyanna. Thank you for always showing us your generous and thankful heart. May you be blessed this fifth year of life, Aiyanna. We L.O.V.E. you!!!!

A Big Day (With Haircuts!)

Two days ago we had quite the day. In the morning Mommy, Brinley, and Titus went to North Platte to see Uncle Buck, Aunt Cathy, Vicki and all the rest of the "left-overs" from their 4th of July party. It was quite fun to go swimming in their lake with the kiddos and hang out with Aunt Jimmie (who I never thought I'd see again this side of heaven). What a treat!
Then, since we had been gone all day and Mommy didn't put any thought into supper, Daddy took us out to Whiskey Creek. We had four gift cards and so we put them all together and treated ourselves to a WONDERFUL meal.
And, finally, after supper and after watching Titus sweat constantly for the past few weeks, we decided to have a family fun time of hair-cutting. I was pretty nervous about cutting Titus' hair but he sat very well and did great. Check out our photos--

That's a lot of hair, Titus!

I got a BUZZZZZZZ!!

 Then it was Brinley's turn. I had been waiting and waiting to cut her hair and Daddy finally gave me the go-ahead.

I took very little off of Brinley's hair

Quick bath to get all the hair off!

Much less scraggley

She's so beautiful!

Well... that was our day! Thanks for stopping by!

Third of July

Yesterday was Titus' first third of July. Yea. We celebrate the third of July because that's when the fireworks go off in Kearney and when our friends the Halbgewachs have their annual party. So Mommy got some treats ready--

We didn't make it to the party but we did our own fireworks....

SPARKLERS:

There were fireworks ALL over the neighborhood!

Then we got ready for the artillery shells and some fountains:

Strawberries, blueberries and FIREWORKS!

 This is the last photo I took... please notice no children are in these seats anymore....

....they were in my lap screaming and scared. :-D

Happy Third of July!!