4th of July

We headed back down to the ozarks this past weekend to celebrate the 4th of july and it was a good thing that we did because apparently it was all of 65 degrees back home on the 4th- which is nuts! i guess it was nearly a record low! my cousins from texas were visiting and apparently they were drinking hot cocoa they were so cold!! it was in the 80's at the lake and we actually had a few good hours of nice boating weather. zach, sawyer and i drove down friday night after i got off work which was nice because sawyer slept almost the whole way down but sucked because zach and i were both so tired. on saturday the weather seemed like it was going to be crummy but it cleared up around lunch time!
sawyer with uncle ben



















we were going to hit the mall but when the sun started to shine we all decided to go boating instead and the day turned out really nice! I can't say whether sawyer liked the boat or hated it...he fell asleep everytime it was moving so im assuming he like the noise and vibrations but perhaps he hated it and wanted to tune everything out. We went out all day long and he was cheerful the whole time so I like to think he enjoyed himself.

We saw some people cliff jumping while we were out boating. This was nuts! This guy in the picture had to have jumped at least 50 ft! I was afraid i was going to have to save someones life! No one from our boat jumped off these- Val and I made sure of that, but the boys were heckling the jumpers pretty good- one guy chickend out and climbed all the way back down- even after a little girl jumped off next to him!














Beth and the boys did their own cliff jumping when we got to haha tonka springs. These were a little less scary. Here is Zach mid jump.














Sawyer enjoying the boat with Grandma-he did awesome all day long!



















Sawyer feeling grandpas scratchy face (he loves to touch faces)














Sawyer looks like his is trying to wave














Sawyer and grandpa























After we stopped at haha tonka springs we headed down to bear bottom resort and some of the kids rode on the water slide. The drunk people there (im assuming they were drunk) could not get enough of sawyer and we literally got almost mobbed by a bunch of different random people while we were walking in and again while waiting to use the bathroom. I at least assumed everyone was drunk because they were all admiring sawyer like they had never seen a baby before in their lives... we had some wonderful appetizers there and then decided to hurry home because it was starting to get overcast- good thing we did because it started to POUR rain as we were leaving but we got ahead of it and boated home without another drop. We all got ready and went BACK out on the boat to watch fireworks. It was about 930 and past sawyer bedtime so he didnt even notice them because he nursed and then fell asleep...guess we will have to wait until next year to see what he thinks about them.