Catching up a little: Recovering from our trip, Henry is 10 months, and Independence Day

We took the kids to falls park for one more time to catch tadpoles (no luck)

Mason got to feed the ducks

Mason let out some primal noises and became one with nature

 I got to try out some long exposure photography with my ND filter (it gives the water a smoother/blurred look)

 Nixon pushed Henry around in this seat as if he was royalty

 Mason drinking straight out of the garden hose

 Henry is pulling himself up and standing a lot

 Isn't that the cutest pose?

 Henry is 10 months old! Wow!

 Mason got into the cupcakes Kim made for his birthday cake (check out the last post for the fun we had for Mason's birthday)

 Our ward had a "patriotic celebration" (read: 4th of July activity) on Mason's birthday. He was happy to have an extra party that day

 There was breakfast

 An obstacle course and bouncy house

 A CUTE baby

 Face painting

 Working replica canons

Lyza got to play duck, duck, goose

 Mason was very patriotic

 He looks better in my sunglasses than I do

 Swinging with his little bro

 Bath time for the cute baby

 Lyza looked so cute for church and was so excited about her stick-on earrings that we did a little photo shoot 

 I am not sure what was happening here (perhaps Nixon just found out that he was getting a popsicle or something)

 Beautiful evening down at the park

 Kim took the kids to the beach the next day and Henry just looks so adorable

 Mason fell in love with his train set all over again

Nixon made a goal to learn how to do monkey bars this summer and got to check that off his list

 One of Lyza's goals for the summer is to learn how to bake cookies

Henry made a goal to compose a song and is doing very well ;)

 Grandma and Grandpa stopped in for a night on their way out to the west coast before the family reunion

Nixon and Grandpa shot some hoops together

 We all went down to the beach together

 Mason got his birthday gift from Grandma and Grandpa

 Night time stories

 Henry is learning to waive bye-bye

We had a yummy breakfast on the 4th

 And some snuggling

 More playing with the train

 Henry got some rides in this box

 Some friends had a 4th of July party that we went to. Nixon enjoyed playing corn hole

 There was home made ice cream

 There was even a bouncy house there

 We had to leave early to get ready for our early drive to Seattle the next day so we didn't get to watch fireworks. I saw some in the distance from our house though

Here is one last video of Henry being exceptionally cute

Next post should be our trip to the Seattle zoo and maybe some family reunion on Vancouver Island 

Take care