4th of July Palooza and celebrations.

Started out the morning with the ward's pancake breakfast. Delicious and filled with great friends as always. Max also participated in the little children's parade that morning. Let's just say he's not a shy kid. He paraded up and down, back and forth over and over riding his bike past all the adults.

Love young women in the ward who constantly want to hold our babies, yes please!

On our way home we stopped to watch the neighborhood's parade. There were some pretty sweet get ups.

Definitely stoked when the fire truck passed by.

Candy, oh yes candy.

Quinn started crawling up on things that day, so big!

We ran over real quick to the local firework stand to pick up Casey's favorite stuff! Kid in a candy store I tell ya. Max was beyond obsessed with that huge inflatable dinosaur.

Our bff Katie who has stepped in t be the best pseudo aunt/nanny ever. We love her so much. She's the same year as Casey in school.

Onto our annual 4th of July Paloooza! Water balloons are a must.

Tiny pools filled with warm water is a must.

Quinn is very much obsessed with his tongue as of lately. It's stinking adorable.

And then onto Bryson's face. Love those pouty cheeks and lips.

The elders joined us during the water balloon launching time.

On the the delicious desserts. I made these s'mores bars, and hello freaking yumminess.Go forth and make.

Maxson's hand is covered in the outside coating of a red cake ball. Hello cavities and happiness.

For little kids games this year we did ice on a spoon and they were to run around the tree. Just like herding wet cats. But it was still hilarious.

The 4th of July crew minus Tasha and the missionaries.

Casey's favorite part of the night: fireworks! It really is fun for one and all even those children who cover their ears and scream, we all know that deep down inside they really are enjoying it ;)

Nebraska sells the WORST sparklers, so disappointing. But Max still loved them and even more he loved the little poppers you throw on the ground.

Lincoln is truly like a war zone for a solid 4-6 hours that night. It's insane the amount of noise but really fun too. Huge fireworks are lit off into the air from all directions, it's quite an evening for sure.

I love this country so very much. And each day am so proud to be an America. Thankful to Heavenly Father who guided those founding our nation. Thankful to those who serve our country by protecting our freedoms. Thankful to the families who stay at home raising families by themselves while their husband and fathers are deployed. I can never imagine living that life but am so ever thankful to them for what they give up, I often think of those women and admire them so much. Although this nation has slowly been corrupted through various forms, I still stand behind it and am proud of what it can provide. Land of the free because of the brave indeed.

Life part 2

a. St Patrick's Day. One of awesome cousins, (hi, Clara!) told me of some of the fun things she does for St. Patricks day with her kids and I mustered out the energy at 10 pm to do a little something for Max! He woke up to little green foot prints leading down the stairs that turned out milk green! He was then obsessed with milk the rest of the day and ever since. I think he loved it so much because he associated colored milk with flavored milk, ha.

b. The boys always way up like this now, out of their swaddles! We're starting to transition them slowly out of swaddles.

 Busy playing with toys. His focus and attention span when truly playing with toys is getting better!

 a. Bottles, feeding, life
b. Look I could totally do triplets, NOTTTTT! Ha, my neighbors little girl was over for a few minutes under my care and I was so happy I did not have triplets.

 Mom's night out to the movie! Our little car.

 All the ladies, minus one who came a teeny later, ready to see our movie, Cinderella. It was so nice to get out with this great group of women, all whom needed some time away from being momma. And to discuss a fun/cute movie afterwards with these women was fun too! I seriously BANKED when it came to Nebraska friends.

 Look at these cute boys, Bryson's little face!

 And now two cute faces with Quinn's little tongue.

 a. Got the exersaucer out and the babies LOVE it!!! I'm so happy I have this. We took a bunch of the toys off though since getting it out because it just seemed like too many things to overwhelm the babies.
b. The exersaucer and this toy hanging thing are by far their/my favorite toys for entertainment.

 a. We had a ward silent auction for the YM/YW last week and this lollipop tree was there. I kid you not that the entire night was a game of lollipop roulette with Max, after about an hour or so he finally snatched one off and tore off the wrapper faster than we could stop him, that silly boy.
b. Max was sooooo red faced one day after chasing around our friend's remote control car for a good hour and a half, if you could nay seeee the redness in person.

 Signs of bottle holding!!!!!

 a. Salmon tacos for dinner! Trying to get a little memory of Tia Rosa's in our home, didn't do to bad!
b. Cute babies! BQ. Don't you love Quinn's onesie? (Thanks, Amber!)

 a. Went grocery shopping, came back to this sight, a man holding two babies outside and Max insisting to wear an 18 month shirt that is wayyyyyy to small. He ran up yelling Momma!!!!!!!

 New outside toys! We're finally  beginning to get a tiny tiny bit of warmer weather on various days!

 a. Favorite toy aaaaaagain.
b. I turned around and saw Max carrying these big old scriptures into church and my heart wanted to burst! Oh my cuteness!

 Putting Dada night night

 Max learned how to open the child lock under the kitchen sink, sigh, at least he's putting his mischievousness to good use and cleaning the mirrors, right?

 More time outside, hallelujah! These new toys have kept Max from running off so much so it's actually enjoyable to be outside with him! I put the babies in bouncers right outside the door and usually sit between them feeding them their bottles, burping, and talking to while Max plays.

 a. The extent of my Easter decorations pretty much.
b. I tried doing a fun activity with Max one morning instead of working out to spend some quality time with him. Nope. Not making that effort again for awhile/ he licked the gluestick,used the gluestick as chopstick, and promptly ripped off all the paper .2 seconds after this picture was taken and left a huge mess on the ground for me to clean up…I still love you, Max.

 GLORIOUS sight!!!!!!! It's not always constant but it sure helps when they do it! Frees up my time a bit more!

 a. Max woke at 8:07. Found him like this at 8:16. Hashtag priorities
b. Super Baby! Any guess on which baby????????????? q

 Again documenting their swaddle escapeness/cuteness...

 And then Maxson wanted to wiggle his way in between them for the picture, so stinking cute.

Also, SO glad so many of you read that mom article I posted yesterday! If you haven't yet, go read it and DO tell me your favorite line!