Started Back---Blogging

We'll our family just started back blogging. I had been keeping up with our life in scrapbooks and so on, but decided to start back blogging this morning.

So much going on in our household with three kids! First of all, they are growing up way TOO FAST! Where have the years gone. We now have a 9, 7, and 6 year old. It seems just yesterday my 9 year old was born.

We went to the local Fireworks and 4th celebration in our little town yesterday. It was from 1-9 however we didn't get there till after 4. We had a late lunch which consisted of ribs cooked to perfection by my husband, baked beans, maccaroni salad, potato salad, homemade cole slaw, and some awesome grilled corn that I doctored up. The kids and I made a homemade strawberry shortcake and some homemade peach ice cream. We had so much food we forgot about the watermelon we had put in the freezer to get chilled.

When we finally arrived at the ampitheatre in our town which is by Buck Creek we were all full and miserable! They had games of wiffle ball, volleyball, moon tosses, horse shoes, and scavenger hunts. We headed to the back of the park to place our chairs and check out the bands that were playing for the celebration. My son's intermediate school principal's daughter was on stage singing. She is a pretty good singer! The kids wanted to go play the moonpie toss game which consisted of standing behind an orange line and tossing moonpies about 10 yards away with hopes of ringing the bucket. You got three pies to try and land in the bucket. Josh managed to get all three in, and Jillian and Preston only got one in a piece. For each moonpie that went in the bucket you got to enter a drawing to win $50. Later on in the evening, they did the drawing and Josh won the $50. He was called upstage to collect and they handed him a purple bag with 50 gold coins in it. He was so excited!

We had fun sitting and talking with friends until the fireworks display started. They were once again awesome this year. After they were over we gathered our chairs and went and visited the new local coffee shop to get a treat before heading home. We listened to a few bands that were playing there and enjoyed some red velvet cake, and a blueberry scone.

All in all an awesome day with family and friends.