Fourth of July weekend

Fourth of July is one of the boys' favorite time of the year.  Payton and Cadynce love the fireworks!! Payton loves lighting the fireworks and letting them off but the little ones just like to watch.  Beckym wasn't too sure about the loud noises but at least still watched from afar.  Below is Payton lighting some fireworks off.

These two watching from the garage.

Beckym preferred to watch fro inside the garage between the cars. 

He dont mind holding one though:)

He eventually got brave enough to put one in for Payton to light.  

and then RUN!

We all were able to make the annual Fourth of July Bike Parade in our neighborhood.  Here is our street of kids that were in town that weekend.

We end up at the park and the kids all get a cold treat.  Beckym is a little awnery.

Our monkey climbing on the monkey bars.

Next we hit the pool! Here Beckym and Cadynce are trying to keep warm on the hot cement.

Payton in the pool.

This is one of the boys' favorite part of the pool...eating.

Payton not really wanting me to take his picture.

Superman jump!

Scott was actually able to join us which normally dont happen because he is at work and our weekends are filled with baseball.

Beckym making a splash.

Look at him fly.

Cadynce trying to jump like Beckym but not quite.

Beckym doing his swimming to the ladder.

Payton playing baseball

I got some good shots of Payton pitching this past weekend at his state tourney.  They didn't do so hot but in this game Payton pitched really well and they ended up winning 8 to 0.  It was also about 100 degrees so it was HOT!

Love his face on this throw.

Helicopter

When we were out laying out on the dock a helicopter flew by and we all waved because he was pretty close but didn't know who it was.  Pretty soon he circled again and then we all knew it was Larry De Vries.  We all thought oh my he is going to land right here!! He did and the kids all got a big kick out of watching him land and take off right in front of them.  Even the dogs thought it was pretty neat.  Below are some pictures and I am not sure why the first one is sideways but I couldn't change it so oh well.

The boys posing by the helicopter.

Everyone checking it out.

Beckym in timeout on the raft for biting Cadynce.

Taking off.

Airplane

While we were in Iowas Dad had the crops sprayed.  Mom and I were inside having chai when we heard a plane buzzing around really close.  We looked outside and sure enough there it was right outside the house.  It was 5 so we got Beckym up who thought that it was pretty cool.  Here are some pictures of the airplane spraying.

Nana's pond

When we went back to Iowa the boys had a lot of fun swimming in Nana's pond.  Cowman's were there on Father's Day as well and we all hung out and had a great time swimming and eating.  Beckym was too scared to get in the water which I didn't mind and so here he is in the boat with Nana.

Josh and Lake swimming.

Now that is a full boat of boys and their Nana.

Beckym safe on a raft.

We needed another raft so Dad and Mike went to blow it up at the shop and came back with it on top of the car.  It was pretty funny watching them pull up:)

Here Lake is trying to get Vicky off the small raft that she was on.  He tried for about 20 minutes before he finally got her off but she did save her hair!

Everyone out on rafts.

Beckym floating with Papa.

Josh tried to get Mike off his raft but it didn't work.