For Labor Day, one of Tom’s older brothers, Kevin, invited the whole family over for a BBQ. It was the first time everyone had gotten together in a long while. Kevin’s new place is a great party house (with a pool!), and Kevin was a gracious and accomodating host. Everyone brought a bunch of food. We all had a great time!
Visiting and passing around Naomi:
These are pics my father-in-law sent me:
Thanks, Kevin (and everyone), for a great day!
Independence Day (actually celebrated on Saturday, the 3rd, this year) started off early with a pancake breakfast with family and old church friends. The fun included balloon swords and hats, a flag ceremony, and riding bikes decorated at home.
Next, many of the aunts and uncles came with us to watch Toy Story 3 in 3D. It was fantastic!
Saturday night we watched fireworks, of course! And we enjoyed BBQs each day of the 3-day weekend. 
Good times.
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*some of the photos stolen from my sister, Debi
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On Sunday, the Avis’s came over for Family Home Evening (or FHE). Our church encourages families (usually immediate families, but extended families, or even groups of friends when family isn’t near also work) to gather once a week for family learning and fun. You can learn more about FHE here and here.
Traditionally on Monday nights, we hold ours on the first Sunday of each month because its easier for our merged schedules.
This time, they came over a little early so we could have dinner before. Homemade pizzas! The best!! I made the dough (which is what inspired the dinner last month when Heidi was saying she wants a pizza dough recipe), and they brought all the yummy toppings.
The kids had fun, and got messy (they didn’t make mistakes, though (sorry, Magic School Bus quote) but you can’t really make mistakes when making your own pizza, right?) adding the toppings to their individual rounds of dough like masterpieces.
(Insert collage here. Okay, I just have to say that you are going to be seeing a lot of these collages. I have been admiring them all over the web, and couldn’t figure out how to get any of my photo editing programs to do it for me. I even tried making my own, but YIKES! Getting the sizes and spacing right was just too much! Happily, I found the program I needed. And in case any of you are looking for the answer to photo mosaics as well, I’ll save you some time: Picasa.)
John showed Tom how to grill the pizza on the BBQ (thanks, John, we’ll be doing this a lot more often!) and I’m sure we made our neighbors jealous with the savory scent. Just look at those pizzas & I dare you to try to keep your mouth from watering. Too late! Ha!
We took advantage of the tables still set up on the patio from Esther’s birthday.
Oh, WOW! That was good pizza! I know, you’re all jealous. But that’s okay. Give me a call and come over sometime and we’ll show you all the tricks to a perfect grilled pizza. Just bring the toppings.
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