Fourth of July, Take One! July 3rd

Emilyn ate pretty much everyone's snowie she could get her mouth on!

Uncle Mike and B'Kenzie were good at sharing with her!

The water was heated, so Emilyn was in heaven, finally enjoying being in the pool.  She's not so much a fan when it's cold.  She even let Daddy dunk her under a few times, with big smiles when everyone clapped for her.

Our little swimmer.  She is getting so confident that at times I realized I had lost track of her, and then I would find her just swimming around on her own.  She's getting so big!

Fourth of July lasted a little longer than usual this year, since it fell on a Sunday.  We went to the balloons on Friday then swam the rest of the day while Matt was at work.  Saturday we swam all day, then went over to the temple lawn to watch the fireworks.  We also got to celebrate Grandma Barb's birthday.  She rented a snow cone machine as part of the celebration, and we all lost count of how many we had eaten by the end of the weekend.  It brought a lot of smiles!  Sunday we went to church and then repacked to spend the night over by the pool.  Matt's family calls it Johnson Lake Campout.  Matisyn and Daddy slept outside with everyone, and I slept inside in a nice comfy bed next to Emilyn in a crib.  She made for a very long night, deciding to spend most of it awake and crying.  I think she's teething again.  So much fun!  The next morning, Matt had the day off, we went to the big parade, and then spent the rest of the day swimming again.  It was a very nice weekend, and we were all pretty exhausted by the end.  Here are the pictures from Saturday, day two, of the big weekend.

Happy Birthday Grandma Barb.  Here's a picture of all the grand kids as a surprise that Becky organized.

Our family waiting for the fireworks on the temple lawn.

All the cousins that were there.

Emilyn had a thing with the football, maybe she's going to be a player someday!  Everytime she saw the boys' football throughout the weekend she would pick it up and run around.

This was Emilyn's expression for most of the fireworks.  Matisyn fell asleep half way through, and Emilyn just kept pointing and saying, "Wow, oooh, wow."