Friday, July 9, 2010

Fourth of July Weekend

We lucked out and got a four day weekend over the Fourth! We spent the time up in Soda and it was a pretty awesome weekend!
Waiting for the Soda Parade

However, it did start out pretty crappy...literally crappy. I'm talking raw sewage kind of crappy. We stayed at the apartment and somehow (we are all blaming this on Josh) the sewer line got completely blocked. So we spent the first couple of days trying to clear out the line. Not even the 150 foot snake clean it out. So we eventually ended up having to call in the big time people to fix it. It would not have been so bad except I'm the only girl in our family. So while the boys are out peeing in the yard, I'm driving 1.5 miles (yes, it's exact) to my mom's house. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people who can't pee outside--I'm actually pretty good at it--but you see the Father of the Catholic church lives about 30 feet from the prime peeing spot, so I figured I'd spare him.

I love the look on Josh's face--nothing like playing plumber for the weekend.

Gavin was quite the helper by attempting to put all 99 pieces of Josh's tool set in his shirt.

My sister was up from Arizona, so we convinced my dad to take us fly fishing.


Josh and my dad spent some time shooting the target out behind the house. Can you tell by Josh's face that he's just slightly competitive!

We decided to take the whole crew out and shoot the archery range and roast hot dogs.





This cracks me up. She barely stuck it into the very tip of the antler and the spine! Good shooting Tex!

The parade was great as always. The boys had a pretty great time.
I love all these boys! And yes...my kid does have a plastic bag over his head. Mother of the Year...I am not!








Can you tell Quinten absolutely loves his cousins do death!

Gavin was a little more cautious with the whole parade thing. Josh kept on having to take him out there to get the candy.






He then got smart and just started stealing the candy out of other people's sacks.


One of the cars in the parade backfired and Gavin freaked and went running for safety. He pretty much spent the rest of the parade on Josh's lap with this goofy look on his face. He kept saying "Boom, scare me!"


Quinten was goofing around in the baby swing on our swing set and leaned too far forward and ended up dangling from it. I was laughing so hard because there was nothing he could do about it, so I hurried and grabbed my camera!


Josh's football team made it the the finals, so we are off the Great Falls this weekend for the championship game!

This made me laugh so hard. I stopped at Wendy's the other day to get the boys' a kid's meal and the toy that was in it was a funny face costume. I handed it to him and he holds it up to his face and says, "Look, I'm Grandma Wendy's Papa! He's a funny guy!" The funniest part is, he really does look just like my dad!