Celebrate!

We had such a great 4th of July! The day started with a yummy breakfast at the ward house, then off to the parade. Evan noticed a car show going on next to the parade route. So of course, we had to take a look. I think he cold have spent all day there. He was in Heaven!!

While Andrew and I took an afternoon nap, Dave and Evan headed up to the Woodside Jr. Rodeo. Evan participated in the pig wrestling competition, and I wish I could have seen the action! The goal is to wrestle a pig down and drag him over to the judges where you'll get a trophy and ribbon. Hopefully the clip will give you an idea. Evan is so proud of his trophy! We don't have a great clip of it, but apparently he really did jump on one and then with the help of other kids, they dragged it off to the judges.

The finale of the day was spent with friends and family at Dave's office where we ate dinner, played games, watched a movie, danced to music, and watched the fireworks over the bay. It was awesome! I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend the 4th. Happy Birthday America!!

Our companions for the evening.

Andrew's dance moves

Evan and the other kids' dance moves

I love this clip...we all adore Aunt Cassie!

Asassination

So Evan has a few pet lizards, and we've told some of you about our cricket breeding. Well, Dave has had some awesome success breeding these critters. His first babies grew up to adults and were now laying eggs for the next generation, until last night that is. This afternoon Dave went into the garage, and I heard this, "Ang! Come check this out!" So I go out to find our three tupperwares (aka cricket habitats) completely covered with ants! Swarms! Millions of tiny ants! It was crazy! I wish I had photos, but we were so appalled we immediately sprayed them down and killed them all.


As if it couldn't get any crazier, the crickets .... completley gone! Thousands of living baby and adult crickets....gone! No remains or anything! I just don't have any words! Okay, so we were going to feed them to the lizards anyway, but to find them just annihilated like that was disturbing! These ants are scary!!

New Additions

Evan has been asking for bunkbeds ever since we visited Will and Cassie over a year ago. And Dave and I were all aboard, we just took our time finding the ones we really liked for the price we liked. And here they are! Evan and Andrew love it, and as soon as we get another mattress we'll move Andrew onto the bottom bunk.

I've been meaning to post this for a while too. Here's one of my projects. Dave was so great and let me buy some woodworking toys. So I got straight to work.... and here's the finished project. (Sorry the photos a little blurry, and the room is still a mess despite the extra storage.)

Fun in the Tub

These photos make me laugh. Andrew loves the goggles. Evan did his hair like this so he'd be Jimmy Neutron.