4th of july recap

we had some visitors this year for the 4th of july! and it was SO MUCH FUN!

kyle and carissa and their 2 boys kyler and brant drove over from rexburg on monday june 30 and stayed until the following monday, july 7. 

considering we had 3 kiddos that napped and 2 that are still nursed, we were still able to get out of the house a bit and play. 

tuesday was a pretty low key day. we just played at our neighborhood park and then here at home. on wednesday, we took them to settlers park, our favorite park here. it has a huge play ground and splash pad. kyler was a little hesitant and a bit overwhelmed with all of it, but we still had fun. we packed a lunch and had a picnic before heading home for naps and some air conditioning! 

thursday we ventured to the boise zoo early in the morning and the weather was great

. a bit overcast and not too warm. by the end of the zoo it was starting to really warm up and we were all tired, so home we went for lunch and naps. we played out in the kiddie pool in the backyard in the afternoon, and got some qdoba for dinner that night. we also had a a very fun late night trampoline session that night after all the kids were in bed.

friday was the 4th and we headed out to melba idaho for their parade. we found a great place to sit and watch it and the boys got just enough candy to please them. 

trying to get a picture of all of them sitting and looking was quite the task.

cant even believe that this is our family.... cause im pretty sure parker was brooklynn's age yesterday.

after naps we spent the rest of the day playing out in the backyard in the kiddie pool, jumping on the trampoline and having a fun water fight. 

 these two are angel babies! they were so content (for the most part) to just hang out outside with us. 

 brooklynn tried a graham cracker for the first time. it was a hit!

 parker LOVED the water fights. i mean LOVED them. he was right in the thick of it the whole time. every time the guys flung water at us on the tramp it always went RIGHT into parker's face. and he would laugh and laugh. it was so fun. 

 after a yummy BBQ we let the boys throw some poppers before putting them to bed.

 we tried some sparklers but it was still too light outside to see them. maybe next year we will keep parker up for fireworks.

after it got dark we headed outside to light off some of our own fireworks. before we lit them off we saw SO MANY fireworks being shot off all around us. we could stand in our street and look off into the distance and see one right after the other in different locations. it was fun.

it was a very fun week and holiday. it was a sad day when they left. i wish we could live closer to family so we could see each other more!