Movie and More Birthdays...

Friday July 20th Scott and I took the kids out to eat at Red Robin and then we went to see the second Momma Mia show at the new Reel Theater in Caldwell.  We loved the movie and especially the fancy theater with the reclining seats and the huge screen plus the 40 speakers.  The sound and picture was amazing.  It was so fun!

Monday the 23rd we celebrated Josh's birthday with hot dogs and slip n slide.  We got him a toy semi-truck.  I'm pretty sure he had fun!  (I had to add dad to his cake.)  The next day we went to the Owyhee ward party with Mom and Dad and then went back to their house to watch the Trek movie that mom gave him for his birthday.  We gave him a new blue western shirt and I made some German chocolate bars with the left over frosting I had from Gerald's cake.  They were really yummy too!  Barbara and Vaughn and Tara also came over.  It was a nice evening!  Happy Birthday Boys!!!

Gerald's 78th Birthday...

We celebrated Gerald's 78th birthday.  We had sloppy-joes, and Wanda's amazing potato salad.  I made his cake and Scott said it was the best tasting cake I've made so far.  I made the coconut pecan frosting from scratch and boy does it ever make a difference so I guess all the time that it takes is worth it.

Looking pretty good for seventy-eight!

It's always fun when we can get togheter!  Kacie and Brady went to Ron and Stacie's house after to watch Love Kennedy.  Taylor watched it at BYS and then got to meet the real family from the show and she wanted the kids to all see it.  It's fun to see my kids having fun together,

Blackbeard the Pirate & Thunder-egg Days...

Brady and I helped at the Thunder-egg 2K fun run.  We sprayed the runners with water by the football field.  We then went to watch Weston and Lori's kids in the Blackbeard the Pirate play at the Four Rivers Cultural Center.  They all did a great job.

Trenton the Parrot...

Tessa the Crocodile...she has quite the personality for acting!

Abigail the Sailor

And Jaynee the Bluebeard.

Later that night Scott, Kacie and I went back to the Thunder-egg days and ate a rib dinner to help those affected by the vandalism at the Hilltop Cemetery.  We enjoyed visiting with Steve and Kris, Jason, Ron, Ryan and Taylor plus others from the community.  We walked around the booths, ate got some drinks and then headed over to the football field to watch some BubbleBash Football.  I was surprised how much fun it was to watch.  Kacie had a friend playing on the Les Schwab team and they won!  Teniele was nice to bring Brady in for the fireworks.  They were really good.  It was a busy, but fun day!

July 6th...

 Mom's Alder family reunion was this weekend at Diana's house and she still wasn't feeling up to traveling from her surgery.  So dad went with Teniele and her boys and we stayed to help mom and keep her company.  We ate good food, played games and watched movies to help keep her spirits up.  She was very disappointed to miss out so hopefully we helped. 

Another adorable picture Alexz took of Kingston.

Independence Day...

We woke up with no plans to celebrate the 4th but then Steve called and said he had extra tickets to Roaring Springs so once Scott got done working around noon we headed over.  Ron and Stacie's family also went as well as Stephen, Ferrell, Kendall, Steve and Kris.  It was fun to hang out all together.  We were the last one to get there and so we were also the last ones to leave around 6:30.  We then got some dinner at Blaze Pizza again.  Then we headed home before going to see the Ontario Fireworks.

Alexz took this adorable picture of Kingston...

Sure love this cute family!

This was the only picture I got of us so I had to play with it a little! 

 I sure love these people!

After the firework show we went back to Ron's house and Steve had a few fireworks to set off.  I thought it was funny when Ron thought it would be better to put the cones on a ladder.  I guess there is a first for anything. haha!