to prove that i am not a complete holiday grinch, we started out the day with a fourth of july photo shoot, although, admittedly, aunt marte bought the shirts.
"get your hand off your face..."
"a little too close..."
"no, look at the camera..."
"madeleine, look at the camera..."
"hand out of your mouth..."
"all the way out..."
i give up. but there is some serious patriotism there.
we played some croquet. i won the first game, and the second game was delayed (without ever resuming) due to distracting children. i'm not sure what i'm doing in this picture. some kind of ballet croquet move.
randy, with more conventional form
lots of playing with cousins and hanging out in the backyard
these two were inseparable all weekend, in case you haven't picked that up yet.
we had a delicious fish fry dinner
with dutch oven cobbler for dessert, made by kyle.
we had a bit of a talent show in the evening
with dancing by calli
and a recital by randy
it was getting late, and i wasn't willing to stay up late with the kiddos (okay, so maybe i am a bit of a holiday grinch. but in my defense, randy tried to keep madeleine up to see fireworks during orem days a few weeks ago and when he took her outside at 10:30, she looked up and said, "oh. can we go back inside?" i wasn't doing that again), so we did some early sparklers with madeleine (see? her fourth was not completely devoid of fireworks) before heading home and getting the girls to bed before it was even dark out yet.
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