Thursday, July 8, 2010

My favorite kind of Day

I love the fourth of July because it is all about hanging out with friends killing time until it gets dark. It sounds weird, but it might be one of my favorite holidays :) This year was tons of fun with some of my favorite people.

Trying to find the guy that comes out of the firework. I took a bunch of these pictures and April is in this position in all of them - I love it!

These guys are not "pose for pictures" kind of guys so I love this. Dave has pink eye so we will forgive the closed eye picture.

Here is Matt demonstrating why we don't throw snaps at people kids! it popped on his shirt and left a black mark. Don't tell the young ones, but we all thought it was hilarious
One of my favorite things to do with snaps was drop them down the sewer - this picture makes my heart smile.
We played toss water balloons with towels (does this game even have a name?) I was telling someone at work about it and she had never played, I said "really?" she looked at me like I was crazy and said "yeah we just threw them at each other" I thought a fight would break out, but I guess the kids liked the game because we used 85 balloons playing.

Team Dave and Sam were a force. Then the kids decided the adults should play against each other. They had some awesome technique - check it out!



This game would not have happened without Aprils hard work filling balloons and Angi's special water balloon filler - Here is April demonstrating the possible multiple uses

So glad we remembered to take a picture - Thanks Angi! Then it was time for the show......


April and Matt are some daring firework starters. It is impossible to capture in a picture, but they were mighty close to a lot of flames - good show guys!

We bought these "rockets" that you were supposed to put into the grass. Turns out they were just fountains, but on a long stick. Matt decided to make it an adult sparkler and created quite a finale for our 4th of July. Thanks everyone for the fun time :)

Saturday, July 3, 2010

I am on Team.........

Yeah for Girls Night Out!! We went to see Eclipse, which is not my favorite, but what a fun night (and a highly entertaining movie!)
We started with dinner at Zupas - this restaurant is a new discovery for me and I wish I had known about it sooner, YUM. Just ask Lisa, I am pretty sure she liked it too :) Then we were off to the theater. We got to see the movie as part of the Cents of Style screening (I put a link to their blog here in case we make it on, cross your fingers!)


I find it funny that a lot of people were taking these types of pictures in absolutely pure excitement. Angi and I wanted to join the fun and look like older women obsessed with these tweens.

April decided Team Bella is the only way to go.

We were then off to Red Mango, another first for me. Way to go Angi - loved it! We were off the wall crazy while here and I had a blast! I think everyone around us thought we were drunk, but who cares?

OK so April thinks that Angi looks like Dakota Fanning - you be the judge.



I think she may be onto something......... We made a super scary drive home through West Valley looking for a house with a gate, but no fence. Yes you read that correctly and I will hopefully be getting a picture to share with you soon.

We topped the evening off with a scary moment from Dave (sorry Aprils neighbors). I never care about going to bed late when I get to spend time with these girls - love ya!