4th of July BBQ

We celebrated Independence Day with some great friends and family. Always lots of fun and lots of good food. I was happy to add a few extras to the usual group this year.
The kids had great fun playing in the backyard together. Here are a few highlights.

The setup!

(Thanks for the help Laurie.)

Rebekah playing with Jack, they are good buddies. Rebekah likes to take care of him and he likes to be taken care of. This works out well! The kids enjoying the bounce house. Jack enjoying his root beer float, YUM!

Part of the gang!

The BIG hunt! They hunted for that tiny little tooth forever. Good thing the tooth fairy doesn't need proof!!!

LOST Tooth

Someone lost his first tooth!!

Ryan is so excited that he finally lost his tooth. He had been wiggling that tooth for weeks, and it finally popped out at our 4th of July BBQ. Ryan was wrestling around in the bounce house and bumped into one of the kids' heads, this knocked his tooth loose. He was so busy playing that he didn't even know what had happened, he said he just felt something hard in his mouth, so he pulled the tooth out of his mouth and THREW it into the grass!! A hunt for the tooth followed, but no luck. So we stuck a flag in the grass so the tooth fairy would know where to look.

He thinks it is great to have a missing tooth. He likes to come up with good uses for the open spot in his mouth; his favorite is that a lollipop stick fits right through it! How convenient.

Family Photos 2010

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our annual Brandley family photo shoot. I LOVE them! They always turn out so great. I think she caught some real fun moments and the kids personalities well.