My entire immediate family and their families(all 21 one of us) were together for the first time in several years. We spent the 4th of July together at my house. It was so nice to all be having so much fun and not have anyone missing. We quickly got a family picture while we were all there and surprisingly enough it turned out pretty good. Then we grilled up some buffalo burgers(provided by my brother in law Justin) and hot dogs. We also had all the fixings including baked beans, macaroni salad, veggie tray, fresh fruit and my dad's yummy dutch oven peach cobbler with ice cream of course. As you will see in the pictures we had tons of fun riding motorcycles, chatting, dancing, being silly and of course watching the fireworks. I had the best time and hope we can keep doing this in the years to come!
Avery wasn't feeling well at all and my brother Shawn was giving her some lovin...
I really like this picture-I rarely get a decent picture of me with my eyes open.
Maddy was a little overwhelmed with so many people at our house. He also got his finger slammed in the door(as you can see there is a bandaid on it.)
My niece McKayla enjoying her peach cobbler...
Everyone hanging out...
More fun times...as you will see as the night went on we got more and more silly...
A little sparkler fun for the kids...while we patiently waited for the real show.
One last big boy/little bike race. My niece McKayla starting them off...
Maddy and Steve waiting for the big firework show my neighbor Ryan puts on. Probably my favorite picture of the day!
8 comments:
It was so fun!
I used the gay dog picture because I just stole it from Jamie's blog. When I tried using one that you emailed me it showed up really small, and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I love your post!
Talk about full house! That's cool that your entire family was able to be there. Did Steve freak out with so many people being in his house?
What a fun night! I am glad that Chloe didn't cause to much chaos over there since she decided to hang out with you most of the night!
Oh, will you e-mail me those pictures of the fireworks I have been so sad that I didn't get any, I just have it on video. My e-mail is mindytrimble@yahoo.com
Thanks
How fun and rare to have your whole family together. I need some tips on getting my pics on my blog bigger!
Colett-to get your pictures bigger you have to link from a third pary site like Flickr, Photobucket(that's the one I use), etc. The reason you have to do this is because Blogger will only upload a picture with a maximum width of 400pixels wide. So you have to upload to Photobucket and then resize your pic. to the size you want(based on how wide your post space it-yours is pretty wide.) I do a max of 600 because my post space is around 640. If you do it bigger than your post space then it will cut it off-does that make sense? After you resize then you copy the html code and open your blog in a new window and paste the code in the html(not compose) portion in your post where you want it. Then you can center it by clicking the icon you would to center your text(after you click on the picture.) It is a lot easier then it sounds. I have a word document that Carly emailed me about the whole process that I could forward to you if you want. Let me know your email if you do. I could also show you anytime if you want-we live pretty close. :)
I might have to try getting my pics bigger too! Fun 4th with the whole fam, sounds like you are great hosts.
Aah! You totally had a great 4th of July this year! What a full house! Are you starting a fourth of July tradition?
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