The 3rd of July!

We had a great 4th of July celebration this year! It started the 3rd (Elaina's half birthday, she would want me to add that!) with our "first annual Farris race!" Hopefully this will be a yearly event, everyone loved it. We, of course, trained for weeks, maybe months, to get ready for it (ok, not really!). Anyway, it was held out in Kuna at the high school and started with the pledge of allegiance.....

and some much needed stretching (nice Jake!).....

First was the cousin race (Grumpy started off with some advice).......

And then they were off (all 13 of them, with a few little ones watching on the side)....

Anna was so fast and took 1st place!

John didn't want to be in the race but loved talking to his new cousin!

Here is Jake getting ready for the brother race. All 6 brothers and 2 brother-in-laws were there to compete. Jake did awesome coming in 3rd place (not bad for an old guy!).

We also had an adult relay race and a cousin relay race! It felt good to run but even better to watch! My favorite parts of the race were watching Suzanna in the relay part.....she was running so fast and at the same time pulling up her pants that can NEVER stay on her waist! Also, when I looked out at Blake across the football field I thought he was wearing white tights with his lovely tight spandex shorts, but Amber informed me that it was just his white legs, oops!

It was amazing that EVERYONE was there! If my math is right we had Grammy and Grumpy....15 aunts and uncles......21 cousins (with 1 on the way!). We are so lucky to have a great family!