Independace Day Celebrations!

We started off the day in a very nice way. We all slept in till 8am, believe me...with a 3 year old, that is considered "sleeping in."
On days when Ryan is home, he and Avery do a lot together. Avery loves helping daddy out with various chores or cooking. Today Avery and Ryan had their work cut out for them. And of course Avery was so excited to get the ball roling.


First Avery picked out his "Daddy's Little Helper (will work for cookies)" T-shirt. Then it was off to the kitchen to get started on our Waffle Breakfast.

Here are Avery and Ryan preparing the waffle batter to put into the waffle iron.

And of course Avery has the job of mixing the batter. He loves this part. He is such a good little helper.

The Nelson boys pouring the batter into the waffle iron.

And now finally closing the waffle iron, and waiting for the GREEN light! Which means the waffles are done!

Avery and his YUMMY plate of waffles! It's his favorite breakfast in the whole world.

Once breakfast was over it was time to wash the Pilot. Ryan recieved a Gift Card to Checker Auto Parts so he went and bought some car washing supplies. They were very eager to get started. Avery wanted to be inside the car with dad so that he could help.

While Ryan was vacuuming out the back seat Avery had nowhere to go accept the driver's seat. He is getting so big, but he looks so small behind the wheel. I love this picture.

After the vacuuming was done, it was time to get the scrubbies and soapy water and get wet! Avery hates getting wet unless it involves the bathtub or the water playground...so he was a bit hesitant to do this part.

He warmed up the idea and even got his own wash cloth to scrub the car. All three of us were washing the car at one point. But Ryan really was the best at it. He had the best scrubby.

Once the car was clean it was time to relax. Stacy and Avery took naps and Ryan watched some TV. After nap time was over the 3 of us headed to American Fork to spend the rest of the day with Drew, Christy, Hayden, Hallie and Kiya. Drew and Stacy's sister Robyn and her hubby Jeremy were in town also. It was great to see them.

We were all so hungry we dug into the food and it was yummy. We all know what a sweet tooth Avery has. Here is a picture of him with a mouth full of brownie. I bet sometimes he wishes mom would just put the camera down and give it a rest.

Here are Robyn (left) and Stacy (right) being silly! If you can't be silly with your sister, who can you be silly with?

Ryan and Stacy enjoying the nice cool breeze after a hot and humid day.

Stacy and Avery relaxing while the neighborhood kids busted out the first of the fireworks.

Hallie with a sparkler. Doesn't that look fun!

Kiya sitting in her stroller as happy as can be. She really is such a wonderful, layed back baby! And so adorable!

Stacy's brother Drew riding a skateboard that has only 2 wheels! Hey! He is getting pretty good!

Avery with a sparkler! He had never seen one of these before. And he did quite well considering he doesn't handler new things well. He used 4 or 5 of them! And he loved every minute of it.

Avery with another sparkler. Stacy barely got this picture. The sparkler was almost out.

Avery just had so much fun with these, Stacy couldn't get enough of how happy he was!

Video of Avery with a Sparkler.


Fireworks!

We had such a wonderful day! It started out perfect and just kept getting better from there. We love days that are slow paced without a strict agenda. We can just lolly-gag if we want. Spending time together is so important to us, especially when Ryan works so much and most of the time its just Avery and Stacy. We love holidays and the opportunity it gives us to see and spend time with the ones we love!

Thank You Drew and Christy for inviting us the spend the 4th of July with you and your family. Thank You Robyn and Jeremy for taking the time to see us. We love you all! And we also hope that those we didn't get to see had a wonderful Independance Day! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

~The Nelson Family