4th of july (better late than never?)

i've been bad about updating my blog recently. partly because i don't have a camera currently so i have no pictures to post and partly because things aren't super great here right now. but just so you know, we had a great time on the 4th. first thing, we had a ward party/picnic out behind the church building. paul spent all morning helping to cook and keith gave himself a nice fat lip on a bench (i think...i'm not quite sure). we have a great ward and have made so many friends.

after the ward party we headed down to tulare to see rachel cause i've missed her so! because the pool guy hasn't been doing a very good job at mom's we all went over to the morris's just down the street and had a great time playing in the pool for a couple hours. we went on the slide and had just a great time. keith is finally getting to really like the water again and get over this winter hiatus of no swimming. alexa LOVES the water and i'm so excited about that. she just splashes and kicks her little legs like crazy.

after we got our fill of sun and water we drove back to fresno, all took showers and got ready to go to buchanan high school for the freedom fest. we met daniel and tiffany netzley there and let the kids play, and drew and ella came too after she got off work at chuckchansi ball park. daniel got the tickets for free so it didn't cost any of us anything but gass. the firework show was awesome. it was really just a great 4th.

not great photos, but here some of the 4th i took on my phone. we gave alex a red vine...nice huh.