Independence Day

On our final day in Iowa we celebrated the 4th of July. The 4th is like Christmas for our family, we like to go big. It is also a day we celebrate my two little sisters' birthdays (born on July 8th). Unfortunately it rained and rained and rained all day. This really put a wrench in our plans, but we made the best of it.

Double Rainbow...breathtaking.

After lunch Meg could no longer stand the wait and was dying to open her presents! So the girls opened their gifts.


Then we tried to do a "photo shoot" of the girls in their 4th of July outfits...let's just say they both were less than cooperative. If one was smiling the other was pouting or being ornery. These are the best we got.


Here is a little peek from last year and I thought that "photo shoot" was hard! HA! I just can't believe how they have grown in one year. Lo has such lush hair now and last year there were barely two strands on top.

Lo was 20 weeks and Landrey about 14ish weeks.

Then we decided to pack up and drive around Ames. Normally, we would be launching off parachutes and laughing our behinds off at Kreg shoving his own teammate Melissa down to the ground to score a point for his team. Kreg is wiley, and the Keethler's never win. We had hoped to get 'em this year, but I guess we will never know...until next year Jensen's! ;) So that was a bummer, that is one of our big highlights.

Finally around 630p the rain let up! So we took the girls outside to do snappers and sparklers. I was pretty bummed at first because I had already put my overtired child to bed and once again she was missing out on the fun, but as "luck" would have it, she woke up screaming, so being the awesome mom I am I got her up to do fireworks.

You really have to get into! :)

It was definitely a different 4th of July, we never got to see any "real" fireworks, but all in all it was still fun and it was nice being with family!


Hope you all had a safe and fun 4th!