The 4th of July

Well we had a decent 4th of July but unfortunately Jacob was sort of sick, he woke up Saturday morning with a horrible croup cough, I could tell he was coming down with something on Friday. I feel so bad for him, he is coughing a lot and has that raspy breathing sound, I can totally relate growing up with asthma and feel pretty helpless. Despite having croup, he still acted fairly normal most of the day. We usually have a big cook out on the 4th but this year everyone wanted to take it easy so we ordered 3 giant sheet pizza's for an awesome pizza place, we they completely messed our order up and we had to return the pizza's but we get our next order (up to $50) free.

I decided I really wanted to try my Nikon D90 out in a more professional way by getting lots of pictures of the family members who were there for the 4th, I had fun and took the advice of a lot of professional photographers to shoot in the hours between 7:30pm and 9:00pm, when the sun is starting to set, it was a great tip because the colors came out beautifully. The kids were not to keen on all the pictures I wanted to get of them, some of them started getting pretty fussy but with singing a little "if your happy and you know it" and "old mcdonnald" we got through it.

Jacob was definitely not too fond of the fireworks, the loud noise of them really scared him so he was able to participate for about 15 minutes as I plugged his ears but after that he just got too cranky so I had to bring him inside with my mom.

We ended the night by putting 3 of the babies together in the bath, my 14 month old niece Shayna, my 5 month old nephew Landon, and Jacob, it was pretty cute but they were all tired and cranky and not enjoying the bath together too much. As usual...here are many pictures from the day, these are my first real attempt at editing and touching up photo's from my camera.