4th of July- Part 2

My 4th of July was challenge after challenge after challenge before "enjoying" the day off. We had plans to visit grandpa and pick cherries from his cherry tree and then off to Nana's for lunch and a nice day in the park with family and friends where the kids can play in the water and just enjoy the day with their cousins.

ONLY that day never really happened. LOL! We got to church late... had to go to an extremely overcrowded grocery story called Wal-Mart to get groceries for our picnic, forgot stuff so made a side trip to Freddies and left my debit card in the car so had to run back out and re-ring everything back up. Got to the Father in Laws house and realized we forgot the kids' fireworks at the house so we headed back home for the fireworks. Didn't get to pick cherries at Grandpas so hoping to get by later this week... which at this point isn't looking so good because my To Do list just seems to keep getting longer and longer. So after fixing face paint umpteen times with the kids, we headed off to Nana's and got there around 4. Can you believe she ate lunch without us! So what if we were only 3 hours late for our lunch date... :D

We went to the annual fireworks at Ann Morrison and left from Nana's house who lives about a mile away. In Madi's stroller we packed in 5 camping chairs, two blankets, a cooler full of ice, a bag of fireworks, a bag of snacks, a 15 lb bag of camera equipment, a tripod, 3 backpacks and a kid's chair. Can you believe the wheel broke off on the way there... A stroller with 3 wheels doesn't work well... did you know that! :D

So here we are with our 3 kids who decided to bring their scooters with them so they can't carry anything and all this gear and a whiney almost 3 year old who thinks she HAS to be carried everywhere and a broken stroller... My husband ran back to Nana's grabbed the van and recruited his brother Matt to help us to carry stuff into the park. My job was to carry in my camera bag and my 3 year old so I walked on without them as they found a parking spot and carried everything in. My husband did a great job carrying everything in except he forgot one little item... As i am getting ready to finally set up my camera stuff 20 minutes before the fireworks display... I notice my tripod is no where to be found. He remembered EVERYTHING except for that.... So no fireworks pictures this year from me. I didn't even try. I knew they wouldn't turn out so I didn't bother. Also did I mention that in the cooler that I packed for dinner at the park included Black Forest ham, Swiss Cheese, Mayo, Mustard, tomatoes, onions... everything except the bread... I FORGOT TO PACK BREAD! It was quite the day of mishaps... but in the long run it still ended up being sooooo much fun and a 4th of July I shall never forget. Next year I guarantee I won't forget the bread or tripod....

I remembered crayons at least for my 3 year old! And here is my cutesy Sister In Law Laury!


My single, adorable brother in law Matt.... :D


Laury kicking her husband in the toosh! Trust me it is much deserved... she puts up with a lot! :D


Me and Laury! Aren't we so cute!


My crayons and books entertained the kids for awhile.


My husband and his brother


My two favorite boys


I have no idea what they were laughing about but soooo cute to watch them


The boys and Madi snuggling up to her Uncle Jack


My niece Sydney and her friend Paige


My nephew Zach. He told me it was one cool picture of him! :D

Girls will be Girls!


Chalk Art in the Park! It was absolutely stunning!


And last but not least.... Josh with two of the kids

Meet baby Kennadie!!

SHE'S HERE!!   SHE'S HERE!!

I am a little late on posting this but have been so busy with other things. But I haven't fogotten to post about her! My sister finally had her little angel. She is officially 1-week old and absolutely gorgeous! She actually reminds me of Madison when she was a baby. Congrats to Melissa and Nick and big sister McKynlee! Enjoy her because they grow up right before your eyes!

Which reminds me... I gotta go enjoy my little ones... Madison has been asking me to do a puzzle with her all morning!

Overdue for another Roper Family photo

It has been almost 2 years since our last Roper family photo... time sure flies doesn't it! I was going through my archives and came up on this!

Aren't we a good looking bunch!!

Here are the Roper Girls... still missing one though... thanks to Matt! I keep telling him to find a wife and have some nieces and nephews for me.... but no he would rather go to college and get his life in order first.... I tell him that is not the Roper way! LOL Just kidding.... :D


Here is were is all began... the "official" Roper's


and that family of Roper's have grown this much... (missing baby Abby though) she was in mommy's belly.... does that count?

Melissa's Maternity Photos

BTW... My blog is going to be getting a facelift... so please be patient with my work in progress! I wanted to be able to feature my photos larger then what blogger offers so i have been researching how it can be done!

Anyways my sister Melissa is pregnant with my niece Kennedie Grace. Isnt' that such a beautiful name! We were limited on time so we were unable to finish all the ones we wanted to do... but for now this is what I have.




Me and Mommy time before baby is born!


Can you believe my sister painted this tree! It was featured in a pottery barn kids magazine and so she recreated it. I think it turned out amazing!



You can never have enough blankets... but I think in this case... maybe you can!



The big sis!



She was pouting because she wanted me to take pictures of her and not her mommy.... so in the process I snapped a picture of her pouting!




Have you ever met Lucky? My sister named him that because he was a dog rescued from New Orleans after the Hurricane.



And here is my little niece... She has the cutest button nose!


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2009 Family Christmas Pictures

WOW!!

Can you believe the tree will be up on Friday and Christmas cards in the mail in the next couple of weeks! In a couple of days Christmas music will be on every station, every toy aisle will be jam packed full of last minute shoppers (so glad my shopping is done!), the return line at Wal-Mart will be a mile long, Christmas lights will be reflecting off the snow from the roof tops, and you will have to get up early to defrost and wipe the snow off your car... Tis the season already! :D Are you ready? Ready or not... it is time to get into the Holiday Spirit!


So on Sunday to get into our Holiday Spirit we headed for the hills and for the first time and did our family pictures playing in the snow. It was so laid back and fun! And what incredible backgrounds we had and the colors were so beautiful against the perfect white snow! I have so many pictures to share! I just loved them all!

Here is Josh and I! I love this picture! Do you like my new hair color? The price we pay to look beautiful!


Here is my sister Melissa! I love how the snow is falling around her!

This is a series of photos... there are 4! But dont' worry no child was injured during this photo shoot!

She looks like a rag doll almost!

Up! Up! Way up high!

I love Josh's expression! And then there is Madison! That poor kid looks frightened!

Our goofy family photo! Even Madison participated!

And our official 2009 Family Photo!

Here is my niece McKynlee all bundled up playing on the sled

This shot didn't quited turn out the way I had planned! But I just love it anyways!

Madison was eating the snow!

Adda LOVED the snow! I mean LOVED IT! We would throw snow balls at her and she would try to catch them!

Here is the original shot of Nick and Melissa... but somethings missing... can you tell what?

Oh yeah... their child... so we photoshoped her in... Does she look fake to you?

What a cute couple. Melissa and Nick... young love....

AND SOME SUN FLARE!!! But it's fake... I added it through photoshop! :D

Sometimes cute couples make you sick!! :D Just kidding

Isn't she a little doll! She had so much fun in the snow

Daddy was trying to throw a snow ball at her in this picture!