The Fourth of July in Taos

Rachel and Hailea racing to catch a parachute

Dad and Marcus stole Will's parachute! It helps to be tall.

LtoR: Adelynn, Mary, Rachel, Grandma's neighbor Brooke, Sarah, and Andi.

Mary and Ethan. The "St. Louis Rackers" (soon to be "one of the St. Louis Rackers") do foster care.

Left: Mary, Emily, Andi, and Racel (and I think its Kaleb on the ground) cheer about something.

Bottom: Nathan, Will, and Kaleb chase a parachute.

Guys talking!

The Fourth of July

We went to see fireworks at Lions Club Park on Thursday. I tried taking pictures but it didn't turn out.
We sat on the side of the lake by the Lions' Building- no one else was there! And it was the perfect view. Grandma had given us glow-sticks and we had lots of fun playing catch with them. Marcus was scared of the noise of the firework explosions. Dad had to take him out to the car.
We went to Taos to visit cousins on the third and fourth. I'll post pictures of that in a minute. On Sunday Father Monsingor Cox gave one of the best homilies I have ever heard. It was on freedom and the duties it entails. I wish he had done that homily earlier- I could have quoted Father for my research paper on freedom!

 Glow stick pictures!!!

New Google/Blogger

Now that I have my own Gmail, and therefore Google account, I will stop using Mom's. Please note that for anyone who has viewer permission settings on their blog and invited me to view it, you will need to re-send the invitation to my new email address.

Backgroung

As you can see, I changed the background of the blog to a Fourth of July theme! Yay!

(really short post)

Happy Birthday, Ben!

 

 Here are some late pictures of Ben's 13 birthday party at Grandma's. I had to steal these pictures from Grandma's Facebook- I had taken them with Grandma's camera. I didn't see any pictures of him with his new iPod Nano... (its awesome! *dies*)

  

 Blowing out candles

 

Getting ready for cake!!!

The Muny

On Sunday I went to the Muny!!! The Nisbetts and some other people from Fine Linen Drama rode up to watch "Annie" in the Muny's free seats. I hitched a ride at the last minute. :) 

Three "beautiful maidens" in the backseat. 

Best buds

Elise, trying on the beautiful paper hat that they were handing out. 

 Benjamin and the mutilated fan

The Muny is gigantic!

We were stuck in traffic for an hour on the way up. The guys in the Nisbett van decided to taunt us with Oreos. LOL

Then they discovered a dry erase board. The first one says Turn Around and the other one says Do a Dance.

"Annie" started after eight, and it was two in the morning before we got back. Weeeeell, I had to get up for volleyball open gym at nine. I was going to take a nap after volleyball, but then we discovered we were showing the house. To top all that, we were watching Michelle and Andrew because Bob is in the hospital with. After we showed the house and the Woodleys left, I babysat Nick, Addie, and Mark while Mom took the other boys to Boy Scouts. We were watching TV, Nick found a Star Trek Next Generation episode. So of course I got hooked on that and stayed up even later. The next morning I slep until TEN!!! !!! !!!

Oh, yes, one other thing. Adelynn comendeered by bed last night. I set up the canapy for her. WARNING: If you have a younger sister and a canapy, DO NOT set it up and let her sleep in your bed. SHE WILL WANT TO SLEEP IN IT FOR FOREVER!!!

Haircut

On Wednesday I cut my hair! I donated nearly 12 inches to Locks of Love.

And this is my new haircut!

Happy Father's Day

Love you, Dad!

Ben is a teenager now!

Ben's 13th birthday was yesterday. He had a sleepoever Friday night and then as a last-minute thing we went over to his best friend's house as a family (his best friend's family also happens to be good family friends with us) :)
More to come later. And by the way, Ben is camera-shy (or rather he just makes weird faces or sticks his hand on the lenses) so I don't have many pictures. I'll put up what I do have later. Sorry about the boring, picture-less posts!

Pictionary

Today we were playing Pictionary. Mom and I did pretty well (she even got yodel!). Ben and Will, on the other hand... :) Ben thought that sissors were monkeys (???) and William thought that Ben's mountain was a triangle with water in it.