4th of July Weekend Festitivies

We hosted the 4th of July celebration at our house this year. The plan was to cook-out and spend the day outside soaking up the sunshine and playing lawn games. Unfortunately, I didn't run that by Mother Nature first so we got rained out. We didn't let a little rain ruin the fun though. Mike still cooked out chicken wings, burgers, brats and hot dogs out on the grill (he got soaked!). We enjoyed great food but more importantly great company! We all crammed into our little front room for good conversation and a couple of very fun party games. Tyler was acting pretty good at the start of the day but towards the end of the night started feeling sick. Poor little guy threw up a couple of times for his audience. I don't know if it was all the excitement or perhaps from the Flag Cake I fed him! Either way, he was feeling like himself again by this morning. We decided to take advantage of seeing Mike's Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth (who traveled all the way from Wyoming for the holiday) so we went to Morris today for more visiting. Here a couple pictures of the fun (unfortunately I didn't take more pictures yesterday because we were all just sitting around inside)....

My Flag Cake that I was very proud--this was the second attempt.....you'd know why I was so proud if you had seen the first attempt!

Tyler with his Great Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth



Tyler's Great Grandpa Ellsworth is a woodworker and made Tyler this really cool wooden block set (inside the brightly painted box)

Tyler says "Thanks Grandpa! I can't wait to play with my new blocks!"