Oh Beautiful....

For spacious skies.....
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So...I have made it to July, finally. Only one month behind.

Really nice!
Oh well...at least they are getting posted. I don't think I have too much more to actually CATCH up on, other then the 4th.
So here we are!!!!

SUCH a cute happy fourth picture of Ty and Maky.

Karman was still at camp...we took the ferry over in the morning for the closing ceremony, and to pick her up. She is the 2nd one in from the right...in the black. They are doing their closing skit.
While she was gone she was invited to a friends house for the fourth. So we no more then picked her up and dropped her off at her friend Rae's...where there was a neighborhood party.

I Love Makylie's leggins. :)
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We had a friends Mark and Erin, and their kids Sean and Mason over.

Our tradition is to just stay home, have a nice BBQ, and (because fireworks are not illegal in our particular area yet) watch the nice spread that some of the neighbors put on. It works out nicely, because we are right here at the house, and if the kids wear out too much, they can just go to bed.
HOWEVER, before that....the kids had a great time in the slip n' slide!

They splashed and slid for about an hour.

Then dried off....

Then we had our BBQ...Erin brought over a pasta salad, and we had green salad, corn and watermelon and some DELICIOUS steaks!

Notice the husbands are sitting alone outside....I am not sure how that happened.

We got all set up to watch fireworks...
Makylie watched in anticipation!

We had some home-made strawberry pie and ice cream while we waited.

Mason got tired....Makylie got tired...

Night finally fell...

So the boys found it appropriate to put on a magic show for us.

It was the cutest thing about the whole day....

They came out with huge smiles, just so ready to impress....

And they had a hat and a ball...and they said....

"Are you ready for the Tyler and Sean show?"

We said, YES!

"OK...Close your eyes!!!"

We all just laughed and laughed! We were to close our eyes so they could perform their magic! No Magician Secrets Revealed needed on this one!!!

Oh but they are SO cute!
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Then Makylie just couldn't wait any longer. It was just after 9, and she was just done. She knows when she is ready for bed...and she is the only of all of my kids, that will just go. No worries about what she is missing...SO.....

Off to bed she went....basically, just in time for the pretty explosions to start!

My camera, surprisingly, took some amazing shots. I got far more then this...I set it to manual, and night, then set the shutter slow, and they were really great!

And these are all, from just the end of our driveway.

We had a great day.....

Though I know how late this is....We hope everyone else did too!