4th of July in Kansas!

Still playing catch up on the blog.  But now I am at least to the month of July! 

We once again headed out to Kansas for the 4th of July.  They really know how to celebrate that holiday right!  Here are some pictures from our long drive.  The boys are happy.  They never sleep but they remain happy and entertain themselves....or want me to constantly do things for them since I am in the passenger seat and available to them.  That is why I look like I am going crazy.  Dustin is apparently angrily focused on the road! :)  

 We of course had to do lots of snuggling and playing with baby Audrie while we were in Kansas!  Jack especially absolutely loved holding her. I think he wants a little sister.  I think he needs one too! :)    

 Then came the 4th of July festivities.  Patty always organizes an awesome bbq!  The food was so good!  This year also Patty decided to do a little surprise 30th birthday celebration for Shawn and Dustin too!  Here they are with their cakes and their gifts from Patty.  The gifts consisted of some old man and aging necessities! :)   

 

Here is Jack with Gillian and his other friend that he played the whole time with.  I love the pics of Gillian and Jack!  

We made some attempts to get some family pictures.  Here are the attempts of the grandkiddos and my boys!  We never did quite get a good picture!    

Here is our little family and Shawn and Melissa's little family!  

Our crazy family!   

I really like how this big family picture turned out! Lynn, Patty, their kids and spouses, and the 4 silly grandkids!    

 And just a few more random pics of the fam!  

After lots of yummy food, lots of dessert and ice cream, and birthday festivities it was on to the fireworks show!   I love the picture of Jack below when he was begging to finally begin the fireworks.  He loved them!  People spend lots of money on some pretty awesome fireworks.  The show did not disappoint!    

After the cops came and shut our party down because of some new city rules with fireworks, we had to move our party out to the Baalmann's house, outside the city limits, to finish the fireworks!  We were all pretty tired so it was nice to just sit and snuggle in some blankets and watch the rest of the show!  

We had lots of fun going golfing one day too!  Jack got to come out with Dustin and me and was very excited about it!    

Grandma and Grandpa also had their fun pool set up so we had lots of fun in there too.  The kids were very excited to be joined by Marshall, Melissa, and Dustin in there!  It was lots of fun to dump buckets of water on each other.  And Grandma even got in with Zander one day!  

Isn't this a great picture of Melissa getting water dumped on her head by Jack!? 

And we got to do more fireworks another night, but more of the Utah variety type: smokeballs, snakes, and sparklers!  

Great Grandma Enslinger cooked us a delicious fried chicken dinner one night.  The food was super yummy then we had fun playing blocks with Grandpa, wrestling with Daddy, playing peekaboo around the chair with Grandma, and watching Zander's crazy walking attempts!     

The boys with their Great Grandma and Grandpa Enslinger

 Our family with Grandma and Grandpa

And one last collage:  Jack and Gillian have a funny little relationship.  They can play so well together, but they are pretty competitive for attention, especially Grandma's attention.  These pictures crack me up.  There is one of Gillian looking away and Jack giving her the stare down, then one of Jack looking away and Gillian giving him the staredown!  What cute, silly kids!  Such fun little cousins!  I love when they are able to get together to play!    

It was a short, but very fun visit to Kansas!  A Kansas 4th of July never disappoints!  We had a great time!