If it's possible to have too much fun on the 4th of July, we almost achieved it. (; In the morning we drove to beautiful Lyons for a combined ward breakfast. We had a wonderful time letting Danny meet friends out in public for the first time. Of course everyone says he's absolutely adorable & I have to agree. Kaelah still is not giving interviews about becoming a big sister (aka she's rather annoyed at all the questions she is getting). I liked the picture above simply due to the American flag in the background.
Obviously she doesn't take all the strange happenings out on the baby. Here she is checking up on him while Daddy plays volleyball with the amazing Flores family. They are good! I wasn't able to get any good action shots with Dan's iPhone, though. After having a bottle at the breakfast table Danny was zonked out the rest of the time we were there.
After Kaelah woke up from her nap & the boys were still sleeping, she & I made peanut butter & almond butter cookies together. (We had run out of pb but the addition of the almond butter made the cookies so much better than they had ever been before!) To add a festive feel we reduced the sugar in the recipe & sprinkled red sugar on top. It makes me so happy to use my grandmother Marguerite's recipes with my daughter. I get very sentimental this time of year b/c 2 years ago we watched the 4th of July fireworks from her hospital window only 2 weeks before Kaelah was born. She was so excited to become a great-grandma!
I had to grab a picture of Baby Danny with his eyes open before I changed him out of the Independence Day shirt Grandma Karyl bought him. He's becoming quite the chub & I love it! Daily I resist the urge to squeeze those cheeks so I kiss them until he gets annoyed by my hair. (:
My family waiting for our bbq dinner. As you can see, Kaelah has gotten very good at rolling her eyes. (; Somehow my parents escaped all the pictures. They gave Dan the shirt he is wearing: "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy." I had given it to my dad for Father's Day one year when I was in elementary school. Awww....
We watched 1776 as we waited for it to get dark enough to set off the fireworks Dan bought. I thought he did a magnificent job picking things out for us, but Kaelah disagreed. By the time he was done she was screaming & crying on my shoulder asking to be put to bed. The next day her eyes would randomly get really big & she would say, "Daddy loud 'works." Last year she loved the city's fireworks & this year she slept through them (due to the trauma, I suppose). I guess distance is a key factor in her enjoying them. Good to know!
If it's possible to have too much fun on the 4th of July, we almost achieved it. (; In the morning we drove to beautiful Lyons for a combined ward breakfast. We had a wonderful time letting Danny meet friends out in public for the first time. Of course everyone says he's absolutely adorable & I have to agree. Kaelah still is not giving interviews about becoming a big sister (aka she's rather annoyed at all the questions she is getting). I liked the picture above simply due to the American flag in the background.
Obviously she doesn't take all the strange happenings out on the baby. Here she is checking up on him while Daddy plays volleyball with the amazing Flores family. They are good! I wasn't able to get any good action shots with Dan's iPhone, though. After having a bottle at the breakfast table Danny was zonked out the rest of the time we were there.
After Kaelah woke up from her nap & the boys were still sleeping, she & I made peanut butter & almond butter cookies together. (We had run out of pb but the addition of the almond butter made the cookies so much better than they had ever been before!) To add a festive feel we reduced the sugar in the recipe & sprinkled red sugar on top. It makes me so happy to use my grandmother Marguerite's recipes with my daughter. I get very sentimental this time of year b/c 2 years ago we watched the 4th of July fireworks from her hospital window only 2 weeks before Kaelah was born. She was so excited to become a great-grandma!
I had to grab a picture of Baby Danny with his eyes open before I changed him out of the Independence Day shirt Grandma Karyl bought him. He's becoming quite the chub & I love it! Daily I resist the urge to squeeze those cheeks so I kiss them until he gets annoyed by my hair. (:
My family waiting for our bbq dinner. As you can see, Kaelah has gotten very good at rolling her eyes. (; Somehow my parents escaped all the pictures. They gave Dan the shirt he is wearing: "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy." I had given it to my dad for Father's Day one year when I was in elementary school. Awww....
We watched 1776 as we waited for it to get dark enough to set off the fireworks Dan bought. I thought he did a magnificent job picking things out for us, but Kaelah disagreed. By the time he was done she was screaming & crying on my shoulder asking to be put to bed. The next day her eyes would randomly get really big & she would say, "Daddy loud 'works." Last year she loved the city's fireworks & this year she slept through them (due to the trauma, I suppose). I guess distance is a key factor in her enjoying them. Good to know!
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