Bangs...

It is Schneider tradition to spend the 4th of July at Uncle Jerry's farm in Auburn, WA.  Most years it's a weekend long event and the entire family camps by the river, swims in the pond, sits by the fire and eats.  This year was no different other than we didn't camp with the kids (Ryson and Riley ended up camping one night but the rest of us decided our beds sounded better).

The kids had a GREAT time in the pond.  The weather for the 4th was actually amazing so the water was a welcome relief.  Zak even got in regardless of the fact that he forgot to bring a swimming suit (hence the boxers in the somewhat provocative pic--I don't know why Blake is MIA).

You have NO idea how long it took Riley to talk himself into this, but once he did, he LOVED it!!!



  Over the weekend, we encountered another kind of 'BANG'.  Bella has been BEGGING for bangs for about 6 months.  The last time she cut bangs, all she did was pull them back because 'they were always curly'.  She was over at a friends house playing and her friend wanted her to have a late night but she was so excited to have me cut her bangs that she decided to come home instead.  Before I proceeded to cut, she gave me my instructions, "ok, now I don't want bangs, I want BANGS, like serious BANGS".  It was pretty funny.  She was happy with the end result.

Isn't she beautiful?  She is growing up so fast!