Happy 250th Birthday, America!

We love celebrating the 4th of July in Oklahoma with the Wardenburgs and Datins.  This year the kids had extra fun watching the World Cup together.  They were so sad when Cape Verde lost! 

 

It was nice and hot at the parade.

This is how Joel feels about the parade: Meanwhile, we had a great time.

Everyone's looking so grown up now.

The Datins rented a water slide to commemorate the 250th birthday of our nation.  Colette was impressive! We also found some animal friends in the yard.

We had a storm roll through to create an intermission for our fireworks.  Luckily, it didn't keep us from the full experience.  Little Guy was the most excited this year about lighting fireworks.  He had the best time.  We sure do love our time in Oklahoma.  We're always sad to leave. 

Early Morning Journeys

Since we had to stay for the tournaments we got up at 3 in the morning to drive straight to Lawton, Oklahoma.  We stopped along the way to see the Wichita Temple.  We had so much fun seeing the Stringhams again!  We hadn't seen them since we moved to Kansas.  

We went to Mount Scott, ate Korean, and watched World Cup together. 

10 years later...

We sure love our cousins! 

Double Tournament

 We were supposed to be driving down to Oklahoma tonight, but the boys both won their tournament games to be in the championship games.  And of course, they at the same exact time, so we're switching off who see which game.  BB had a trophy ceremony before the game for being 1st place in the league this season. It's pretty incredible that 5 seasons ago they were in dead last place in the league and tonight they celebrated being in 1st place.  They took a picture of the original guys from the team.

 

The outcome of the tournament was split.  BB's team lost 8-11 and Little Guy won 11-8.  Little Guy and BB both got a sweet double.  

Those dirty pants say it all!

A June Summer

 BB is soaking in extra cuddles with the kitties.

Little Lady is having fun with all her church friends

Youth Temple Trip

 I love that my kids get to go to the temple way more often than I did as a youth.  We used to have to drive all the way to Toronto from Syracuse once a year, and now it's only 40 minutes away and they go fairly regularly.  

Chef Matthew

As part of my helping my children become independent adults one day, I've been teaching them how to cook basics, so that I know when they leave me they won't starve.  The funny thing is that it's my youngest who now does most of the cooking out of the 4 of them.  He was hungry the other day, so he boiled himself some eggs.  He loves hard-boiled eggs. He cooked dinner twice this week, before I got home from work.  It's so fun to watch him grow up.