4th of July Fun 2014

Happy 4th of July!

I absolutely LOVE this holiday and am so grateful to live in this amazing country and to enjoy all the freedoms that we have.  I feel blessed every day to have been born in America and I am so grateful for our founding fathers and mothers that made it happen!

I saw the cutest hairstyle for the 4th of July and just HAD to try it.  Rio loved it!

I know, I am not the best hairstylist by any means but I gave it a shot and it was pretty cute.

She looks so cute!

Her poor little cheek though :(  After our hike to Rocky Mouth a few days prior, as we were coming down the mountain for went end over end and completely tore up her cheek and the left side of her body.  She is so strong though, she cried for just a minute and then got right up and was okay.

Love you Ri!

So great minds think alike apparently :)

My good friend Roxy and I both picked out the same shirt and did our little girls hair the same way!

So funny!

She sent me a text of her cute Reese and I laughed and laughed and just sent back the same pic to her.

That afternoon, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Morris' for a BBQ and fireworks!

Rio is my little tree climber.  So she went climbing up the tree with her Popsicle and I thought she was so funny so I took a pic.  You can tell by her expression that she didn't think it was necessary :)

Jax, Logan & Cole enjoying their Popsicles together

Blake is SO GOOD!

This is usually him when we go out places.  He is just fine to relax and sleep.

Kisty with her little cutie Preston

Erin and Jon - who are moving to Idaho soon.  BOO!  We will miss them so much!

Root Beer Float time!

*Rio, Logan, Jax and Austin*

Swinging their little hearts away

*Logan Cole, Rio, Ethan and Austin*

He loves himself some ice cream...

...looks like he is crying ice cream :)

Such a cutie!

Andrew getting ready for the firework festivities to begin - we have to start off with the "flying can."

This is there reaction - they loved it!

Let the party begin!  Do we have enough?

SMOKE BOMBS!

Sure kids...run through that burning hot smoke!

Here it goes...

YAH!

Grandma, Logan (who would run to her every time the boys would light the next one - ha-ha)

Masterminds at work...Andrew and Spence working out the serious nature of fireworks :)

They're brothers that is certain!

Grandma, Ethan, Jax, Logan, Austin, Rio and Kisty and Preston

Throwing the snaps

Pulling the confetti poppers

My cutie fam :)

Love all of you so much!

Oh Blake...he is so cute and such a good boy!

Spence was showing off his sparkler skills

Rio and Ethan sharing their snaps

Rio was SUPER nervous about doing sparklers this year because the last two years, she has gotten burned :(  Poor thing but I found this awesome trick on FB or Pintrest and it worked like a champ!

However...Logan did not like the idea one bit!  He threw his on the ground

Austin was calm as a cucumber and loved it of course

Getting ready for the big finale...

While we were waiting, Rio and I took some selfies :)

Logan and daddy ready for bed!

What a great day - we all had so much fun