The Braegger Family Blog: beginning of July

July 1st Faith's Wizard of Oz production was still in full swing. Isn't she an adorable munchkin?

I was volunteering, watching over the kids backstage and getting them into their positions. Christian LOVED being behind the scenes. He's still obsessed with getting pictures of everything and was honored to pet and get his photo taken with the dog playing Toto.

He also loved meeting the beautiful "Glinda" who had kids playing munchkins, as well.

He was fascinated with the makeup process for the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion (pictured here).

On the 2nd the kids made coasters at Home Depot.

And that afternoon my mom & dad, Tony's mom & dad, Tammy, Tina, Christian and I got to watch the play. We all loved it! Buddy was mesmerized the whole time and afterward couldn't wait to see it again. We got some pictures with the stars:

We love dressing up for holidays, so on the 3rd we all wore red, white and blue to church. (Christian's pants are navy even though they look black in the picture)

We enjoyed Grandma and Grandpa Braegger's patriotic light display when we visited that evening.

On the 4th we went to the Kaysville celebration and enjoyed the inflatables and booths while most everyone else was busy watching the parade.

Grandpa Braegger had given the kids a little spending money and Buddy couldn't resist this coon skin hat! We also got pizza, slushies,

and Brazilian lemonade. Faith spent her money on getting sparkle strands and a feather put in her hair.

Someone brought their pet corn snake and it was really cool.

Christian even got to hold it!

Faith had a matinee performance that day, so we hurried home (except because of all the holiday traffic it was a slow nailbitier!) to get her costumed up and back to Davis High. Faith wanted her own picture with Toto,

and with the Munchkin crew.

Tony and Christian got to go to the show this time and afterward Buddy informed me that he needed a new picture with Dorothy because in the other one you couldn't see her sparkly, red shoes!

After the play, we went over to Braegger's for their annual Independence Day BBQ. Tony fired off some parachute fireworks just before dinner.

After hamburgers and potato salad, we waited for dark. Then there was an awesome firework display put on by Tammy, Larry and Tony.

When we got home the kids did some sparklers because Tammy got burned by one when she was young and can't stand the things. It was a wonderful holiday!

On the 5th of July, our chicks finally started to hatch! You can see one chick out and another with cracks all around the shell:

I don't know what kind of bird they are, but here is the mama getting ready to scream at me if I come too close. The daddy bird is also near by and standing guard.

While going through Faith's memory box, we came across this darling burp cloth made by Tyler (Faith's cousin, Tina's middle boy) when he was in high school home ec! He programmed the embroidery machine and serged the edge. What a sweetie!

Here are some pictures from the 5th that Buddy took in the car on our way to Faith's final show.

And the chicks on the 5th, two hatched, two to go!

A beautiful sunset that night!

Joy, Jordan, Lily and Sierra got to see Wizard of Oz that night and wanted a picture with Faith. Afterward I pointed out that they could get a picture with a cast member if they wanted, and they said "No, we already did!" Apparently Faith was the star of the show for them :)

On July 6th, after realizing that Buddy had been way too quiet for awhile, I found that he had been painting his own nails to look like his sister's--alternating red, white and blue! And darned if he didn't do a good job with it, too. He'd also gotten creative with some torso marker tatooing.

The kids had an idea to make toys for Dusty and ended up creating these adorable pompom mice with jingle bells on the tails. These kids sure know their way around crafts and a hot glue gun!