Tuesday, August 21, 2012

3rd Annual Independence Day in Driggs!

For the third year in a row, my whole family headed to Driggs for a fun week of celebrating. It is the only time all year (besides Christmas and even that doeskin happen every year) that all my siblings get together. Our family keeps growing so the house feels smaller every year but it is a blast and the kids LOVE being around their cousins!

Abigale went up a few days earlier with my sister so she had a lot of time with her cousins but Lydia and Ryan sure missed her.
Our kids of course woke up before anyone else so we had to keep them quiet somehow. Thank goodness for portable DVD players!
Cute kids on 4th of July. We tried out a new way of decorating shirts- you spray them with bleach and as you can see they didn't turn out quite as we thought but hey we tried and the kids still looked cute!


Waiting for the parade to start. 
Driggs has an awesome parade. The kids always get tons of candy and other good stuff but they were not waiting very patiently. Lydia kept crying because her foot hurt and Abigale said she felt sick. She fell asleep as soon as we got back to the car and slept for quite awhile. Luckily, she was much better when she woke up. No fun to be sick on a holiday!


Love this picture!

Ryan and William

All the Grandkids! Poor Abigale was so sick at this point but at least we got them all in there!

Ryan fell alseep on the way to the car but don't worry he still had candy in his mouth even while he slept!

After the parade my dad gave a little history lesson which was great and hopefully the kids learned something!
This is how a lot of time was spent! The kids running around and playing by the lake. We also tried a Family Olympics this year and it was a good first attempt. We will definitely do things different next year but it was still fun. My family is just a little competitive!


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