Happy 4th of July!

4th of July Eve...Liz and Lucie comforting Chloe through the fireworks

The crowd at the Shumway's house

Happy Fourth of July!

Waiting for Dad to show up at the park

Found our friends!

Avery LOVED the cotton candy...go figure.

This is Avery's sad face in between cotton candy bites

Going for a ride on the train

Mom shot!

Rimmasch cousins

Nana and Alec

Hangin' at the Sunbowl

Chloe being a groupie for the band

The band, South of Graceland

Waiting for the fireworks!

We had an awesome Fourth of July!  Ronnie had to work for a quite a bit of it, but it still rocked.  He left early to work on the sound for the fireworks (the radio station collaborated with the city for the fireworks) and met up with us later at the park for games and fun.  Luckily we found the Judd's at the park to keep us company and had a great time with them.  Love those guys!  We did face painting, snow cones, train rides, bounce houses and just hung out.  After that we headed to my parents house to have a bbq with the whole fam, minus AJ.  Mmmm...nothing like watermelon and my Mom's potato salad at a summer bbq!  Went shopping with my sil Cami and found some steals at Gap and Old Navy, then rushed off to the Sunbowl.  We got VIP seating and dinner there, since Ronnie works for the Canyon Media and about had our eardrums burst from sitting so close to the loud speakers!  Despite that, it was super fun and the band, South of Graceland, was amazing!  They were very talented and knew how to get the crowd going.  At first they only had little girls rushing the stage, but the high energy got around and they had a good size crowd by the end.  My favorite part was at the end when the lead singer brought our a soldier from each branch of the military and waved the American flag, reminding us all of the sacrifices to keep our freedom.  I cried then and I'm tearing up now as I write it.  I'm so grateful for all who protect our rights and way of life.  When they were done, we got to watch the best fireworks show I have ever seen (aside from Disneyland)!  It lasted twenty minutes long and had a narration and music timed to the fireworks (Ronnie was very proud, since he got to help with it).  Chloe absolutely....HATED it!  She screamed and cried into Ronnie's chest the entire show, and only came up for air when it was over.   She still talks about how much she hates fireworks and how much they scare her.  Avery on the other hand, ate it up.  She was all smiles and wide eyes as they blasted off.  Hahaha, love my silly girls!  We finally made it home around 11:30 and promptly crashed in our beds.  It was a great day with my sweet little family!

Dance Party...

Summer Lovin'

We have been having an AWESOME summer and have been partying it up with a few of our favorite neighbors.  Almost every Saturday night you can find us at the Judd's house, bbqing and watching a movie with the Fulmers and the Burrows.  We all have kids around the same age and have a blast hanging out!  Here are a few pictures from those hangouts, plus a few Cinco De Mayo pictures from our little fiesta.  Love our friends and neighbors!

Our House....On the Corner of Our Street...

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of the progress on our house!  Sorry they're in backwards order!  We are now almost to four way, which means basically done with framing and ready for finish work!  Ah!  We've already chosen our interior and exterior colors for everything (tile, carpet, stucco, etc..) and will have to submit our final plan for our landscape soon!  It's going so fast!  Since we took the pictures at the top we've framed the upstairs exterior walls (the interior will remained unfinished) and built the gable/shed roof.  Chloe LOVES going out to our house and is obsessed with idea that we need to get a front door on!  Every time we get home from working on the house she has a list of questions that she rattles off, like "Did you build the front door?" or "Do we have stairs now?".  When we took both the girls to the house (pictures above) we showed her where her room would be and she got SUPER excited.  We have the cutest little video of her talking all about the "new house".  She can even tell people it's in Ivins.  

It's been a really great experience so far, but we are starting to get burned out with the framing phase.  SO ready to move on to finish work!  We go our for 8 hours on Saturday and then 8 hours for Ronnie and 6 for me on Tuesdays (soon to be Thursdays because Ronnie just got called to be an assistant lead for the Deacons in our ward, who meet on Tuesdays).  Then I do a babysitting co-op and watch our soon to be little neighbor boys while their Mom goes out to work on the houses.  It's going to be an adjustment driving "SO" far out of town to get to our house and we'll miss our current neighbors, but we're excited for the move!  Thanks to everyone that has watched kids or come out to help!!!!