5.4.7 Turns 5

Saturday we had the 5th Birthday party for the 5.4.7 Arts Center. Hard to believe it's been that long already. We didn't have a huge turnout, but my kids had fun playing and painting. In the evening we had our 4th Annual Beer Tasting fundraiser. It was successful. I went to a bit of an after party and Bob and Ann's pool hall and played pool with Dennis and Jackie until the wee hours of the morning. It was a fun time on all accounts.

 Today the City guys started building the park pavillion at Big Well park. It's satisfying to see another project come to fruition.

 And, American Pickers were in town the last couple of days. They visited M.T. today. It will air sometime in the fall, can't wait to see it.

The 4th of July

We had a great 4th of July this year.

 On Wednesday the 3rd, we took the kids to the Dodge City drive in movie theatre to see Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University. We parked next to the Kern family and the kids went between our (Ray's) pickup and theirs.

 It was fun. Truman fell alseep at the beginning of the 2nd movie and Amelia and I made it about halfway through the 2nd one. Travis was sitting in a chair holding Truman and Amelia and I laid down in the truck bed. It was a cool evening and nice and snuggly under a blanket with a breeze across our faces. We got home around 2:30 am.

For the 4th, mom and dad were having a pizza party at their house for lunch. We had pizza, summer beer, peanut butter cake, ice cream, and more. We swam, got some sun, then shot off a few fireworks.

Since it was a birthday party (America's birthday you know) the kids got to drink pop. And boy, did they drink pop, lots of it.

Dad's showing Truman how to run through the sprinkler.

Uncle Tanner giving the kids a fireworks tutorial.

Putting firecrackers in the water.

Yeah Huh

Truman is big into saying "yeah huh" right now instead of yes. It's cute and gramatically incorrect.

Cast off, time for summer fun!

Photo courtesy of grandma Pat.

Goodbye cast!

Today Amelia got her cast taken off. She did great. Went through getting it cut off without crying once. When it was time to go get xrays, she walked right in and put her arm up on the table like she'd done it a hundred times. Sorry I didn't get more pictures, but it's hard to document and hold a little girl on your lap at the same time.

Tonight Travis took the kids swimming. Amelia was very glad to get to swim and take a bath and not have to worry about getting her cast wet.

Goodbye cast!

We are building a fence!

Last Thursday posts and quikcrete was delivered to our driveway for the beginning of our fence building project. Travis, Ray and Dad worked hard thursday and friday night and a good portion of Saturday getting all of the posts in.

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