Birthday celebrations all around

July is a big birthday month for our household. Not only do we get to celebrate our nation's birthday, we celebrate half of our family's birthdays as well. (It's pretty easy to celebrate half the birthdays when you're a family of four)

Here are a few pics from our 4th 3rd of July celebrations. Did anyone else think having the 4th on a Sunday was weird? Here are the kiddos with their grandparents dressed up in red, white and blue. I think this picture was taken before John got stung in the forehead while trying to defend our BBQ from a hive of wasps. I guess the head is a good spot to get stung because it hardly even swelled. But I bet it still hurt like heck.

Ava got to stay up to watch the fireworks with Daddy, Mommy and Grandpa. Nana was kind enough to stay home while Reid slept.

We got everyone ready and headed right next door. Yep, we walked over to the neighbor's backyard. They have an amazing view overlooking the BYU stadium. Ava loved watching and commenting on the fireworks. But sadly she only made it till halfway through the finale.

A few days later we got to celebrate Josh's birthday. Sadly, Josh forbade us from taking any photos of his turning a year older. Okay, that's not true. Josh just worked all day so we didn't get to do anything too exciting. We just had a little family celebration later that night. Check out the video below. Both kids were entertained for the entire week opening and closing both Josh and my birthday cards. The password is birthday.

A few days after Josh's birthday we got to celebrate my birthday. To my surprise my sister and her fam decided to join in the fun. Love them! As you can tell, Ava loves them just as much!

The following are just a few pics of the kidlets playing together. Ava took very good care of her little cousin.

These little ones are going to have so much fun when they get a little older. And I'm loving living closer to them so we'll get to see them more than once a year.

After having the kids play for a bit we drove over to Jared's sister's house to continue the party. We went swimming, had a BBQ, and Jared spent a few hours trying to find a DQ that sold ice cream cakes. Thanks everyone for making me feel so special. I am such a lucky girl. My sister was a little better at documenting their entire stay. Check it out here and here.

Celebrating 3 birthdays in one week sure can be exhausting. Hopefully Ava was able to rest us because we had 3 more visitors come before the end of the month.