Happy Birthday America! - Part 2

My brother Tim invited us to join him on the 4th for a semi-family cookout. Since Ken and Tammy are in Colorado, and our boys were staying with Dad and Annette, Rebecca and I enjoyed a wonderful night out of town.

Ok, let's get this over with. I dressed for the occasion

Emily couldn't find the Kitty. She's such a doll.

Tim did an AWESOME job of cooking the speedies and steak. He really likes to use his new grill too :)

YUM YUM!

Emily took this picture. She loves to use the camera.

Then it was time for water balloons!!

UT OH!!!

After a good long nap, we all headed to the park for fireworks

Emily and Sarah (her cousin on Jen's side) had a ball with sparklers

This is Sarah

This is Tim's Goofy face, going into our Goofy Face Album soon to be posted!

This is Sarah impersonating Uncle Tim

With the sparklers almost gone, Sarah got a piece of hot metal on her lower eyelid! Poor thing. We thought it was in her eye, but after some cold water and some closer looking by her Daddy, she only had a tiny red spot under her eye. A lady at the park gave her a dollar to cheer her up :)

Then it was time for the REAL Fireworks!! I wish I could post all of the pictures I took, but these are the highlights. These are nowhere near the ones that Kristi took, but I think I did a fairly good job for my first July 4th :) Enjoy

The Perfect end to this story.

Long Long Ago...

I have this quirk, character trait if you will, I'm a perfectionist! And if you have ever studied the personalities, you will also know that the biggest perfectionists are also the biggest procrastinators. The thinking behind this is that if I never start a project, it will always remain perfect in my mind :)

Having explained my deepest darkest secret, you now understand why it's been months since I've posted anything here. Not because I have nothing to say (as my wife would lead you to believe), but because I'm so busy procrastinating I haven't got the energy to be perfect.

Here are a few pics you missed over the last few..weeks.. yeah.. weeks.

Rebecca Looks Happy doesn't she?

This place was AWESOME! I would strongly recommend it to all Mother-In-Law's :0) Especially the part with the sharks.

Rebecca and I did this trip as a belated Sweet 16th anniversary getaway to Gatlinburg, TN and we got a LOT of pictures, so we'll post more of these later.

Snow Day Finally!

So the snow finally Came.

Oscar had to stand on one leg. I think he's standing.

Shadow got his first taste of snow.

Shadow found a basket that looked just his size.

Papa Socks got jealous,

but realized Baby Bear's bed was too small.

We spent the snow day racing cars on the PS2

and eating chocolate chip cookies.