Visiting

We decided rather last minute to take a trip to Modesto to visit the Kerr-Owens at the end of July. It was good to see our friends and we had a very nice visit and it was a lot of fun to see baby Solace again. Emery wasn't sure what she thought of Solace at first but she ended up liking her and still talks about her.

 

Solace is such a sweet, happy, friendly, and cute little girl.

July 4th

Emery felt much better on the 4th so we were able to go about our planned activities for the day.

 

We went out to my parent's for our traditional swim and dinner party. The Howells (friends of the Nickells), two sets of Nickells, my parents, and the three of us were the people there.

 

All the kids at my parent's.



Cousins

We switched things up a bit this year and had the firework party at our house (usually its at the Nickell's)! We left my parent's first so we could get the last minute things ready.

 

The snack table with the snacks we provided, lots more snacks were brought by everyone else.



 Buck and Jamie were the first guests to arrive so the little girls started with sparklers as we waited for the others to come.

Soon there were lots more people! Everyone who was at my parent's house came plus Sarah and Josh, Buck, Jamie, and Harlow, and our new friends the Empfields.

Emery and her friend Evan had matching shirts that Joanne (Empfield) and I had made earlier in the week.

Emery loved doing the sparklers.

She also loved the glow sticks (who can blame her?!).

And of course there were fireworks.

It was fun (and a little stressful) having the party at our house. Some of our neighbors got home while it was still going on and they commented that it was the biggest 4th of July party that had been held in our cul-de-sac, I was quite pleased with that!

July 3rd

We went to our traditional firework show at the Rawhide Stadium on the 3rd. We were so excited for Emery to watch the show this year. Unfortunately she started running a high fever in the afternoon and she felt really bad. By 5:00pm she had climbed into our bed, wrapped herself up in the blankets and fell asleep. Poor baby! We knew she wouldn't be up for going out so my mom offered to stay at our house with her so that Jonah and I could still go. We were severely disappointed that Emery couldn't go and it put a damper on our excitement about the fireworks but we managed to still have fun.

 

Of course we got snow cones!

And the show was great.