THE NEWTON FAMILY: Long Weekend.....so much fun!

So I got to have a long 4 day weekend over the 4th of July, and it was so nice to have that time at home! We went swimming on Friday with Amber, Alek, Addie and Sadie! we all had alot of fun! I got Ryker a new little floatie for swimming but I dont think he liked it all that much, he seemed to have more fun and splashed more when he was being held close to me.

My Friend Jessica was here from Nebraska to visit, so on Friday night after wearing Ryker out swimming we went to have a bbq, and Jessica got to meet The Rykman for the first time! i have to say he was the center of attention!!!

On Saturday the 4th we went up to Sugarhouse Park with Willy's family. We got up there at about 1 and stayed all day to watch the fireworks...it was a long day but we all had so much fun!!! hopefully we can do it again next year! We had alot of YUMMY food and lots of games and toys to keep everyone entertained all day....my personal favorite was that badmitten. We had tournaments between each couple and it was a BLAST. Willy and I....well we sucked (mosly because of him, haha) we only won 2 games all day, but we both enjoyed ourselves! I wish I got a video of Willy playing! you would think with as athletic as he is, that he would rock at badmitten, but nope, he was so funny trying to hit it. Once it started getting dark we had to start putting everything away to get ready for the fireworks...i was so excited to see Ryker's reaction to them....and well he slept through the entire thing! during the Finale he started to kind of move around, but still never woke up! And then Alek actually fell asleep during the fireworks...but i am not surprised, he was so worn out from playing all day and had been up for like 13 hours. Anyway we all had a TON of fun! I really hope that we can do it again next year!