While Kerry was out with Jemma in the yard on Sunday, he found this 4 foot long blow snake crawling across his path!! Yikes!! After giving it a knock out blow with a hoe, we took some time to get a good look at it.
Kason really enjoyed the whole thing and wanted to skin and tan the snake. I decided that pictures would just have to do.
The snake skin really was kinda neat a soft too. But, it was way to big for me to feel happy about it being in the yard!
Having Family Home Evening has always been a challenge. Really it seems we do a lot together as a family so I usually just forget to plan something more organized. Anyway, we had a fun evening together a making swords (boffering weapons) out of PVC pipe and pipe foam. We even talked about the use of swords in the scriptures too.
I need to take a picture of all the finished weapons which got used at the family reunion for some friendly fighting.
At the Independence Day Celebration (which was on July 3rd this year), Kieran and his band KURU got their first gig. A family that lives right along the river invited them to play all evening and then watch the fireworks.
There were lots of people down at the waterfront and they had a great time playing their music.
Here are some of their biggest fans.
The Melaleuca fireworks were awesome as usual!!
The next day, on Sunday evening, we had our own fireworks at home. Here are a few of my favorite pictures.
From 4th of July down at the river festivities.
Kason got to try out being a fireman.
Droid fisheye shot of the graphic on the back of my truck window.
We recently got a Honda Civic to replace Amanda's ailing Oldsmobile.
Trying out some other special effects with the Droid. Kerry and Lauren.
And with Jemma, now 3 months old.
Earlier this year we had to change our cell phone plan and since the Motorola Droid Phones were buy one, get one free, we ended up with 4 of them at our house. The phone has a reasonable camera in it. Here are a few shots from my camera phone.
Lauren, Kason and Jemma at one of Lauren's ball games.
Kerry with his new pellet gun.
And his Father's Day Bike. 
And here are a whole bunch of plants I got at Home Depot on a killer sale!
Amanda got to go on a 10 day trip to Kansas City and St. Louis for the National High School debate tournament June 12-22. While she was gone she wanted us to take pictures of Jemma for her.
She is about 10 weeks old in these.
Kason and Jemma having fun!
A couple of years ago Kerry got a Traxxas E-Maxs remote control truck which has been a totally fun vehicle. Recently, we got a smaller car style Traxxas called the E-Revo.
Talk about a screaming maching this little car is fast! As is 50 mph fast!
Kerry and Kason have had a ball with the remotes out in the yard in all kind of weather.
Little Jemma likes it too!
