4th of July...

***Warning...LOTS of pictures***

Over the 4th of July we were able to head up to Idaho to spend the weekend with family. My niece Kassie was getting baptized on Saturday the 3rd so we packed up to have some fun...

Here's Kassie, on the right, with my other niece (Kassie's cousin) Jessica. 

We are so proud of her decision to be baptized!

As you can see their skirts match. I made the 4 nieces that got together matching skirts. Each pattern was different. It was fun to make them and I'm sure I'll be making more of each pattern. 

Here are all 4 girls, from left to right Kassie, Alyssa, Jessica and Audrey...

 and another one...

(My SIL's sister Angee took these great pics of the girls, you can see more pics on her blog.}

Here's a picture of Audrey that she took. I love how it turned out.

Here are some pictures of the skirts up close with links to the patterns if anyone wants to make one :)...

 

The blue one with the red on the bottom, I made up myself, the one with the blue on top and the bottom was made from the Market Skirt tutorial.

 I used instructions for the Split Twirl Skirt for this one.

This skirt was based of the 2 Layer Twirl Skirt, with some modifications since I only had 2 fabrics I was using.

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Enough with the skirts...on the 4th we met up with my brother's family and his in-laws family to watch the Fireworks at Ann Morrison Park in Boise. I didn't get any pics of the fireworks, but got some of the kids having fun before. 

Here's my sister Gina giving me the stink eye...

Nathan and his cousin Bryce playing Uno...Nathan just started throwing in all his cards. First time playing and he had no clue how to. It was funny to watch.

Another one of Audrey...

Here's Audrey with her cousin Bryce, she really likes him. No, she's not going to kiss him, although that's what it looks like, he was pretending to be a puppy and she was just holding his face.

Here's a picture of what some of the adults do while waiting for it to get dark enough for the fireworks. There's my mom, Chris, my bro Evon and sis Gina.

Audrey getting a ride from her puppy friend...

Alyssa came over to say hello...

and another of Nathan....

I don't know if you noticed, but the boys had matching shirts that I made, just took some light blue shirts and ironed on some stars I cut out of some fabric I had on hand.

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July weekend, we sure did!