Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Big Celebrations

I will say this about Minnesotans--they do the Fourth of July BIG!!!
It's not just an evening of sparklers after dinner...it's a WHOLE WEEK of partying BIG!!!

For our family this year, the celebration included:


Big Steps with Big Friends...Lily rode the ponies without sobbing this year, due in large part to the fact that she was joined with dear friends Cora, Lily and Eva, as well as cousin Annika. Peer support, you know.


...Big facepaints!....


Big Facepaints by her own Big Sister!....


...Big Surprise at the fact that even Nana got her face painted!...



Big Group skiing....I think that's Papa second to the right!...



...Big Spray....


...Big Bows...."thank you very much..."



...Big Picnic with family and neighbors....


"Big Guns....careful with that knife, Gus!....


....Big Bows......why not???

Big Bites!!!.....Annika LOVES her mom's potato salad like nobody's business....

Big Squinty Smiles, because it really is a great day....


and Big Hugs from Big Hatted cousins who make any day great.
(In case you were wondering, we did do fireworks....they were big too, but I didn't take any pictures....
too busy swatting the BIG MOSQUITOS!)

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