4th of July Fun

July 19th: I forgot that I started this... and never finished. oops.

July 5th: Right after church, Greg and I drove over to my family's home and celebrated 4th of July.
I started making Apple Pie and while it was baking, we had dinner. had...? more like scarfed it down. We had hot dogs with Sauerkraut!!!!!!!!!!!! *Weezie from Dragon Tales* looooooooooooooooved it~

After the pie baked, we all drove over to the Apache Junction High School area and watched fireworks. I always remember fireworks as tiny li'l things... but THIS year? wowza! right in front of our eyes. The only thing that could've made the night heck of a lot better was.... to bring chairs. so ill-prepared. poo.
But other than that, had my sisters, mom, and most important of all, my wonderful adorable husband Greg~ Every other one, one of us would be hootin' and hollerin' things like "Wooooooow!!" or "THAT one was soooo pretty!" or "that one looked like a Pokeball!!" such nerds. I know. But I swear, I think we were the loudest ones there. Do people not WOW anymore these days? sheesh.We all came back home, and ate the oh-so scrumptious apple pie~ made all from scratch!!! (and might I say... YUM!?)

So I've heard that when you bake a pie, you have to have a "signature" thingy-ma-bob of slits for the pie to ventilate (so it doesnt create an explosion. an explosion of pie... we wouldn't want THAT now, would we?) Mine is simple, a heart. and I made to have Snow White's birdy friends to tweet around the edge of the pie crust. magical, ain't it?
Josh Boyd and his brothers joined us as well.
Apparently Grant, his younger brother, has never EVER tasted apple pies... ever. EVER! He took his first bite... *teeheehee* and started to spin around in place... he was speechless. :) he pretty much wanted to eat the whole pie.

We also played the board game QUELF........ way fun! Great family fun game, if you're INTO that kind of stuff. ;) Here's one of the pictures PROOOving how hilarious the night turned into...


My adorable husband Greg had to build a fort and had to stay in it until his next turn~
One other time, he had to hold a plunger... but we didn't have one... but he still walked into the bathroom nonchalantly... walked OUT nonchalantly... with a toilet brush! Us girls literally screamed bloody murder!!!!!!!!!!! disgusting! Hey, he didn't want to lose any points. don't blame him. it's a very competitive game.

So nonetheless, the evening was packed full of fun and happy memories~

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