LOOONNNG 4th of July Weekend!

I am SO MAD at myself for not having my camera attached to my finger all weekend...there we so many Kodak memories that I missed...Oh well- here are the highlights......

So Mon-Thurs were pretty casual this week! We mostly spent them getting ready, shopping, just hanging around- when we went to bed Thursday night we expected a kinda Lazy Friday- But instead Malachi and I took turns throwing up all night and NOT-sleeping! ARRRHG! So he called in sick to work Friday morning (which really sucks because now we don't get Holiday pay) We both felt a lot better- but really weak from throwing up and no sleep!

Friday morning I had planned to go bowling with a few ladies from the ward....Picture taken by Andrew



So we went bowling (He-89 She 69 Malachi-169 Me-??) When we were there one of the 2-year-olds we were playing with dropped a 6 lb ball on his hand and had to go to the hospital and got 5 stitches! OWWW!
Then we did go home and took a LONG very needed NAP
THEN Friday night we had a date...

One of the rules of foster care is that you cannot leave your children with anyone who is not "foster-care certified". So even though we have lots of family and friends around willing to watch our kids for a few hours- we cannot leave them, so since they got here (full-time) in February either Malachi or I have been with them 24-hours!! So we really NEEDED a date! There is a couple in our ward that runs a daycare (they have fingerprint clearance, blah blah, blah) So we asked them to watch our kids so we could have a date!

We went to Red Robbin for Malachi's Birthday Burger! Then went and saw Larry Crowne (it was pretty good) and went out to Ice cream afterwards!! It was so nice to spend time Just with my husband- But I am one of those silly moms that miss their kids after only a few hours!!

Saturday Morning we got stuff ready for our Big BBQ!!! Malachi took the kids to Home Depot to build at the kids workshop so that I could try to clean our house up with out them un-cleaning it as I went! We had LOTS of food and it was fun to just hang out with everyone! Malachi was in charge of the grill!

Since we got married I have worked at Albertsons and almost always had to work this weekend- so it was great to be able to do a big BBQ like this! It was really fun- Thanks to everyone who came!!

So we woke up early Sunday and packed and got ready and left to go camping at Talitha and John's Camp site! That was fun too! We swam in the pool and played on all the playgrounds, looked at the river, sat around the campfire, and hung out with all his family!

Monday morning we hung around the campsite for a little while then packed up and headed to Eatonville for the 4th of July parade! Then headed home for a NAP!! after we were rested and showered we went over to the fairgrounds for face painting and bouncy houses!

There was a free fireworks show at the fair grounds- and our crazy neighbors were shooting off TONS of fireworks-----but after a long, fun-filled packed weekend like that we were all in bed by 10! We didn't see any fireworks! Yep- I guess you can call up party-poopers!