Even More Cousins!

The Williams came down for the week of the 4th of July. We had a great time. We went berry picking, played at the park, tried to keep cool on the Slip N Slide & hiding in the basement, and celebrated my birthday Jackson and Lucas love being together. They are just like brothers -- fighting all the time, except when they are having a blast together.

For an early birthday present, we got a babysitter and went out for a fabulous grown-up dinner at Davis Street Tavern, topped off with gelato from Mio Gelato. Saturday we had a yummy waffle breakfast, made by Mark. We played Wii and went to see Ice Age III, which the kids loved and thought was better than the second one (which I thoroughly despised). Emily, Robert, John, Wendy and Caden all came over for dinner. (The rest of the Friess clan was at the property.) We had a yummy non-traditional 4th non-BBQ dinner of pulled pork burritos that were fabulous! (Thanks to Natalie's wonderful recipe.) We decided to forego big fireworks and just light them off in the driveway. It would've been much better if we lived in Vancouver (where you can light off great stuff that is illegal here) but the kids still enjoyed it. And we all got to bed slightly earlier.

It was really hot so we had a indoor picnic in the cool basement one night.


4th of July hanging out on the deck after it cooled off a little bit. The kids were throwing poppers and Lucas apparently got Robert in the foot!

There are more cute pictures from the week on Natalie's blog.