4th of July & Alayna's 11th birthday

The celebration of our independence also means time to party until the cows come home (or the fireworks are over) for Alayna's 11th birthday bash. We went to my sister-in-law's house again where we ate A LOT and watched the fireworks at the nearby school. The kids had a lot of fun on the slip n slide, lit fireworks (the legal ones, of course) and had a silly string fight.

Alayna chose to not to have a cake or cupcakes this year, so she had a plate of brownies. Who doesn't love brownies? She was the recipient of lots of clothes, gift cards, jewelry, and some ITunes for her IPOD. She was in hog heaven. She's already used her gift cards and has worn every outfit. Her grandma also got her another piece to add to her Willow Tree collection.

Not much else to say, I think that the following pictures pretty much says it all...

Birthday brownies



Anthony away from all the crazies shooting water and no one knew it was him. There was water flying everywhere.



Dominick in his "cool dude" Spiderman glasses. He wore them all day long.

Devyn & her Poppy.

SILLY STRING QUEENS
L to R: Molly, Olivia, Laura, Devyn, Alayna, & Grace

Strike a pose.

Everyone squirt the birthday girl!

Paybacks...

Alayna with her twin cousins, Grace & Olivia

A "sunny" hello from Molly!

And that, my friends, is how we spent the 4th of July, 2008.