the fourth

grandma johnson with gracie

the fourth of july was fun for us-we had everyone over for breakfast in the morning and celebrated ben's birthday -then we went swimming with the family-which was a lot of fun -and then we came back to my moms for dinner and the fireworks-it was a long but fun day-and gracie hardly even made a fit about it

my sister chelsea-what more do i need to say-this picture says it all

mel, me and mom

we also did a pinata-like we do every year -but this year we let gracie pick it out -a monkey-afterwards me and ben kind of wondered about letting her pick a pinata she liked because she might get really upset when she sees people beating it to death-anyhow she was fine with hitting it-which i don't know how i feel about that-but afterwards when it was in pieces my dad-grandpa-gave her the head and she was so upset and was trying to put the head and the body together -so finally my mom -grandma-distracted her with the candy and then threw the pieces away -so it all worked out!

gracie hitting the pinata-with dads help of course



gracie with her aunt breanna and her cute dog -whose name i cannot spell-

when we did the pinata we had to move gracies swing so that it wouldn't be in the way-well she did not like that -she sat in the swing forever with this sad little look on her face-which made me laugh - i know i'm a bad mom-anyhow it was so funny

the fireworks were fun for the boys-meaning mitch and ben- mitch was told he couldn't buy a $200 pack of fireworks so instead he bought one big one for $15 -which i don't know if it was worth it-but we all clapped anyway

mitch's $15 dollar firework

and i forgot the saddest part-when i went to sit down on the picnic table -it CRACKED- it really made me think twice about eating that second ice cream bar-but i did anyway hahah-