I love my "American Holidays".....

I love my country.

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I love my family

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Put the two together and you have a "star spangled" event!!!

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Every year we have a sleep over with all my kids and their families. This year we stayed over on Friday night and family left around 9:00 p.m. Saturday night.
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There was lots of swimming

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My kids always dress up for the occasion

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Some slept in tents and others slept in the house

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plenty of cousin interaction

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goofing off!!

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older girls and older boys

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Autumn and her family went to the Rodeo and came to the party in cowboy hats..She also had several awards to show the entire family. She got every award possible in her grade.

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Marci and Liz watchin the little ones in the pool

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We are lucky to have a large pool

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I love the back view of my house

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a few too many in the kiddie pool

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swinging along...We also have a zip line for the older kids

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time for a snooze.....

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on our patio I noticed this little flower poppin up through the cement

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Peach and Luke

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Brandon and Heather's family

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Jake and his nephews Hunter and Chris

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Justin and 3 of his sons

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Little Annie smilin over her new dress that her mom made for her

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Kaeli, Leah and McKinzie

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Marci and Joe's family..notice the matching outfits

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All the girls had patriotic leis on...

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Liz and Jake arranged for us to play "win it in a minute"... all the family gathered around to play

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first game-----Breakfast Scramble--you had a minute to unscramble puzzle pieces that were cut from cereal boxes

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second game-----Defying gravity--you had 60 seconds to keep the balloons in the air without touching the ground

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third game---this blows---60 seconds to blow up a balloon and with the air knock off the cups from the table

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next game--anxiety separation-- dump the mixed colored candies out and separate by color and put in cups in 60 sec.

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next game---face the cookie--you put the cookie on your forehead, and try to move it to your mouth without touching it with your hands

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next game----stack attack---stack 36 cups on top of each other and then all in in one stack

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next game---penny hose--in the bottom of the panty hose is a coin..you need to get it using only one hand to do it..very hard!!

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next game--bite me---you stack various sizes paper sacks--you bend over without touching with your hands and pick it up with your teeth and put it on the table

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paper dragon---unwind both rolls as fast as you can

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our red white and blue dessert....I made red velvet cake..on top added instant vanilla pudding mixed with cool whip..added the bluberries..yummo

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Our menu this year was barbecued pork and beef sandwiches.. salads, chips and dip, baked beans, and fresh fruit
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for breakfast I made hashbrown quiche, fresh fruit, cereal and bacon

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Alex says it all..it was an exhausting two days full of fun and family....she fell asleep reading the book

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the older kids and parents went to see "Eclipse" and "Grown-ups" at the movie theatre..They got home at 2:00 a.m.

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On Monday Justin showed up with his kids with steaks, corn on the cob and ice cream treats and cookies and chips.. We had a fun day swimming, eating and I took the older girls to see "Grown ups"..
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Here's Kinz Lauren and their friend Melanie

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g-pa playin with the kids

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Justin, Kinz and McKay, Chris Hunter and Mike

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a little pyramiding

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Thanks everyone for making July 4th 2010 a happy memory☺