sutherlandfamilynews: How is it July already??

This has been a great week! We started off with a Family Home Evening with the Stearns family. We had a kick ball game, adults against kids first (adults lost) and then Stearns against Sutherland. Then, we set up badminton. It was a blast. Sorry I don't have many pictures.

Before we left the house, Pennie really wanted to come. We brought her and she was hilarious.

Pennie was enclosed inside a baseball field, except she found a way into the next field, where a huge pit bull was playing. She high tailed it back quick!

It was such a beautiful evening and very fun to hang out with their great family.

Cambrie and Cody had to be competitive with everything we did, they even had to sprint against each other.

Wednesday was July 4th and Cody flew to Utah to attend pole vault camp. Mark and Jayce took him up to the airport in Long Beach and then hung out with Grandma and Grandpa Sutherland. (I stayed home and worked on the camp program, and tons of homework. Ugh!)

But the day started with a red, white and blue breakfast! (We put blue food coloring in the waffles, if you can't tell :)).

They went to Irvine Park and visited the zoo there.

This picture is included for Alex serving in Mexico...haha!
(Do you get it?)

Santa Ana is the only city in all of Southern California where fireworks aren't illegal. Consequently, everyone does it. We have gone up there for years to do fireworks and the kids love it. (With Cody out of town, Jayce was the only kid....)