Fourth of July

Fourth of July was spent at Ann Morrison Park to watch the fireworks. Me, Annie, Stacy, Jason, Derek, Tiffany, (Stacy's brother and sister-in-law) and Jessica (Stacy's sister) had a great time enjoying the beautiful weather and the fireworks.

There was awesome chalk art all over the sidewalks. This one was one of my favorites.

The middle of this firework looks like a heart to me.

I love the Fourth of July, one of my favorite holidays! I love that we celebrate our patriotism, our freedom, and the beautiful land we live in.

Grandma and Grandpa Barrus' 60th Wedding Anniversary

My Mom's parents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this year! My brother and his family were in town to help celebrate as well. We had it over had Savannah's house where there was lots of room for the kids to run around and play.

Me and my two nephew! The cutest boys ever! Topher and Jack. 

Topher and Jack with Great Grandma Barrus

Love this picture

Wish this kid lived closer. Love him so much!

Topher's birthday present

Kade wanted to see what Topher was playing with. I love that he got on his tippy-toes

Topher was nice enough to share and eve helped Kade work the remote

Me and my Grandparents. I took a picture of them and had it framed and gave it to them. I wish I would have gotten a picture of my Grandma's reaction. It was a very sweet moment, made her cry, that's how you know it's good. =]

Heather, Brandon, and Jack Attack!

Kade giving Jack some pointers on crawling

Mike and Sarah. Wish we got to see them more often.

The Bitsch kids

The Bitsch family

"RAWR"

Jack wasn't too happy with this picture, but I love it.

Yummy s'mores for dessert

This kid is so cute! Love him to pieces!

Grandpa telling us how he and Grandma met. I need to get the audio file from Heather.

Happy 60th Grandma and Grandpa!

Driving Home

It seems like any time Annie and I go to California, there is always something interesting that happens. Well driving home from this trip, we had a couple of interesting things. Ever driven down the road in the middle of no where and seen BLASTING AHEAD signs? Well, this was a first for us. We saw the sign and then got to the point where the construction people had all the cars stopped. We sat there for probably about 10 minutes and then we saw this cloud of smoke rising from the mountains followed by a loud bang! Yes, there really was blasting going on! It was really cool. We could tell when the next blast was coming, because we would see another cloud of smoke rise before the blast. If you listen really closely in the video, you can hear the blast. 

After the blasting excitement, we came across another road block sign, but this time we were told there was an accident and that we would have to turn around and drive back the 30 miles we just drove to get onto a different highway to get home. Well, we thought the Nuvi would be able to get us around this accident on an alternate route without us having to turn around. We thought we were in the clear until we saw this flying at us. 

A truck ran into a passenger train and the wreck was covering the bridge we needed to cross to get home. So after driving for 30 minutes, thinking we were so smart and had found a way around the wreck, we realized that we had to drive back the 30 minutes we drove, plus the extra 30 minutes to the other highway. Next time, we'll just turn around. =]