Happy 4th!

My friends Margaret and Alisa invited us over to their places (they live next door) to celebrate the 4th this year. Here we are shopping beforehand (we had to bring ice cream...and pick up a few other things too)! Brett was "relaxing" in the shopping cart on the pillows we were buying...
Once we got to the actual party, the kids had a blast learning what an ant lion is...you can see one here (the little ugly brown bug in the hand below)...these little creatures are larva that bury themselves in the ground and create a cone shaped hole in loose dirt, waiting at the bottom for their dinner to fall in. The kids spent almost the whole time at the party "feeding" the ant lions...they would catch ants and toss them into the holes and watch the feast!

Well, except Brett and Anders...they played DS in Ander's room for a while...

Here's Alisa's husband, Steve, our cook for the evening, making yummy gormet burgers for us to enjoy...

And Matt, coniving with the kids, filling water balloons...

...for the water balloon launcher! They had a blast with this thing and could shoot it from Margaret's backyard, over the house, over the street, over the houses on the other side of the street and into those backyards...it was really cool. The men had more fun with it than the kids!

And Matt playing with Susie, the mut...

Thanks for inviting us...looking forward to Halloween!!!