Independence Day

The first picture here was very hard to get. Nobody wanted to smile and they all thought I was torturing them. As soon as I said I wanted to take a picture they claimed that the sun was hurting their eyes. So I sat them on the swing set and for a second they thought it was funny, so I got a trace of happiness from them. It was America's Birthday, of course Mommy was going to want pictures!! How long have they known me anyway??



After the torture was over we went to a party at our friend Rebecca's house. It was so much fun! There was tons and tons of ridiculously yummy food, waving American flags, and super fun music. She was definitely the Hostess with the Mostess! Hands down. Here's Party of the Year Winner, Rebecca Anderson, throwing a peace sign...



I should have got a picture of the food, but it's good I didn't because if you saw it you would have felt like you were on Survivor and the other half of the tribe won a food reward and wouldn't stop talking about it. You'd hate me. But I did snap this picture of Kitty eating a piece of lettuce. Her choice seemed odd until I spyed her dangling a red onion spiral over her mouth (like it was spaghetti) and chomping down like munch, munch, munch. Oh, and she loved the corn - I have a story to tell you about that...Last Monday we had two missionaries from our church over for dinner (and yes we ate outside again where we have added 3 old fans to go with the toilet). Kat says the "p" sound instead of a "c" sound, so corn comes out as ____. At one point in the meal she kept asking the poor 19 year old missionaries if they wanted "corn." She said, "Do you want porn?" Then to the other missionary, "Do you want porn? Daddy likes porn." At which time I took the bowl of corn and suggested dessert. Nobody said anything...maybe they didn't notice??



Baden was playing the timeless Catch the Football from the Diving Board Game (that's an American football to you CJ). All my action shots came out totally blurry, but I thought this one with his tongue sticking out was darling. If you love us then you'll click the picture and see it better (hint: this is a "How much do you love the Chinns" test. Don't worry, I'll never know.)....



More fun...















...and now I'm done.