I hope all of you Americans had a wonderful Independence Day! We celebrated all weekend long.

We started with a picnic up the canyon with family. Here is my cute little sister playing around with Emma and the camera. I have a whole series of pictures like this.

Had a neighborhood BBQ with lots of friends and fireworks. (I actually have no photo of that night but picture the circle full of hundreds of kids with fireworks going off everywhere. Yikes.)

Made it to the top of the world on a perfect summer day.

Then flew back down really fast.

Had a little visit in the doctors office for my sweet Leah. (Sorry the picture quality is soooo poor. She wouldn’t hold still for me.) I watched this awful rash spread by the hour and wanted answers.

Any guesses on the diagnosis? I guess that link gives it away but we had a heck of a time trying to figure it out.

And finally ended with more fireworks.

Happy Birthday USA!

I never know whether to put the photo captions before or after the photo. What do you do on your blog? How do you prefer to read it -photo or words first?