The Fourth

Here's the kids at the 4th of July parade: Rose, Jackie, Nate, Ashly, Christopher and Kyle

New this year was face painting.

The family photo. Gotta love it!

We were lucky to have my mom and dad come and celebrate the fourth with us. We had so much fun! We spent the day at Lake Minnetonka with Chadd's family.

Chadd took us out on a nice, long boat ride. It was so relaxing and it never gets old looking at all the beautiful homes along the lake (I know, dad, too many windows!!!)

Chadd the driver...and me just chillaxin in the back of the boat.

Chadd really is trying to nap!

This is the dock, you can see Greg's (Chadd's uncle) airplane.

Everyone hanging out.

Ashly running off the dock.

Chadd went out on the kayak for awhile.

Ashly went out for a sailboat ride and they were out for over 4 hours. Well, it turns out that they did actually have trouble. The center board broke and water was leaking in so they were trying to bail water out with a tshirt and cup. Here's a picture of the guys trying to get the sailboat on the boat lift.

Here's Christopher and Buddy playing ball. He will drop the ball in front of you and he wants you to throw it in the lake and he'll go get it, but if you could imagine Cman didn't quite get it out to water, but Buddy would play with anyone willing, even if they were only 1 yrs old!!!

Cman loves this car. He spent a lot of his time just hanging out in the car.

Rose, Jackie and Ashly