July Birthday celebrations in St Louis

So we continued our second annual trip to St. Louis to celebrate all of the July Birthdays with Darrin's entire family.  We started this tradition last year after Leona passed away to make sure we all got together for more then just holidays...and we always have so much fun!  We started the day at the water park and then went to dinner.

Great picture of 3 of the 5 grandchildren....no idea why I got no shots of the adults but I have a feeling no one wanted me to take pics of them in swim suits!!!

4th of July 2013

We were invited again this year to Carolyn's for the 4th of July and we decided to start a little later in afternoon so the kids cold all nap....it is a handful of kids but they all had such a great time and it is so much fun to watch them grow and change!!

 SO CUTE

 Daddy's Girl

 Not so scared of the pool this year

 swimming can make a boy hungry

 Nothing like a quick game of kickball before the fireworks!!!

Water slide fun at Papa Burnett's

Papa Burnett was able to get the kids a water slide this summer that they all had a great time with!  It sometimes feels with our busy lives that we don't get to see our cousins in St. Louis very often but when we do its like no time has passed at all....

One of Parker's idols...Tyler spent the night

I am pretty sure that Parker thought his world was exploding when we told him that his cousin Tyler was going to spend the night.  Parker just idolizes Tyler, and in reality drives him a little crazy, but Tyler is such a good sport and played with Parker and put up with his constant questions and questions and more questions...I am pretty sure Tyler's ears were bleeding before he went home.