Happy 4th

Quinten throwing snap pops
Walker snapping his pops
Walker unable to pop them moves to stepping on them for the desired pop!
Quinten and his glasses-Mom's trying to not notice how grown up he looks
Our boys....unable to take serious pictures


We had such a great Holiday. We hope that everyone else did too...well I really only know of like 2 people who read this so we hope you guys had a great Holiday! We had a big breakfast and got some things done and then headed over to Nana & Papa's the "Holiday party spot". We kidnapped Papa and took him "fireworks" shopping it was great to go shopping with 4 boys...Walker, Quinten, David & and Papa....It went something like this...Papa and Q with a bucket talking about how big of a bang the firework would make, walker with a bucket picking up and putting everything in his bucket that Papa and Q had just touched, and David and I following behind Walker taking out all the fireworks he had just put in the bucket. We came home and worked on the tree house that Papa is trying to build for his grandkids...but quinten kinda didn't want to work on it wanted to do fireworks....so Papa took the boys out to set off fire works. I went to sit our side to watch and out walks Quinten with a grape that Papa has given him permission to blow up....can we sense the trouble we are in. Quinten of course was in heaven and as soon as the grape was rent asunder he turned and asked "What else can we blow up?"....Papa being the great Papa that he went in and found an Apple.....let's do some math Apple+m-150 firecracker=applesauce. Luckily for the produce in the house Papa brought out how do do the homemade rocket with cans water and other stuff....and then you set the Black cat and the can goes flying straight up in the air....well like 3hrs later they ran out of Blackcats...so the can got a break. At this point we stopped and had steak where Walker put on his own display be throwing a MASSIVE fit....all he wanted to do was eat corn...we didn't let him....he wasn't going to bend....neither were David and i ....it was a small stand-off....with no clear winner, we opted for a nap. Now that we had some time to rest we went outside for the show, about 3 firecrackers later, after hiding behind Papa, walker decided that he was scared ( he's a pro at the snap pops )...so I ran inside to grab him a blanket to wrap around himself for extra security...walker's idea of security was to hid underneath the blanket....yep beautiful fireworks going on around us and walker spent basically the whole night under a blanket. For Reals it really was a great Holiday, and I love the 4th and all of it unique history and I loved watch my dad play with the boys and be a kid again himself....we had lots of laughs and a really good pie and isn't that what holidays are about!!!!! And one last rant/rave ...I had us dress all in blue shirts (geeky I know ) because I wanted 4th of July picture....just one...a nice one...of the family. What I got was two children who spent every waking minute in front of the camera posing. so when it came time to take our family picture the were wired and in the first I was trying to get Walker to calm down and just look at the camera and in the second I was trying to get him to not cry and I thought it turned out pretty decent until I noticed that quinten had stuck and green firecracker shell on his face just in time for the shot....I'm sure someday I'll look back and laugh and be grateful that they were weirdo's...but today is not that day my friend.

Also like 2 days ago Quinten got glasses if some of you were wondering why he had them on!