Fourth of July PART 2

After visiting with Aunt Julie and Monica, we headed over to Evansville, Indiana to Philip and Mei's house to meet up with the Jones clan. 

Little cousin Gabrielle always has the cutest 4th of July outfits... next year I'll have to shop ahead for Amerah! 

We were disappointed that Dave's brother Gordon and his family, and his sister Susan and brother-in-law Bob were not able to make it this year.  We still had a pretty good sized gathering though!

 

We were excited to meet Mei's sister and brother-in-law who joined us from Boston this year.  Their little girl is ridiculously cute and very outgoing, little miss Donna (probably misspelling that but I'm not going to guess how to spell a Chinese name :-) was the life of the party!

 

As usual, we were well fed by my sister-in-law Mei, on scrumptious Chinese food along with some standard barbeque fare...

 

I'm thinking that Emily's ready to dig in haha

Our gracious hosts... I love this photo!

It is a Jones family tradition for the kids to raise the flag on Independence Day.  They take their responsibility very seriously...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time for the third annual Jones monster golf tournament...

Half way through the tournament the skies opened up and it began to storm...  by the time everyone made it back to the house they were soaked!

Dave's brother Monroe was brave enough to let Amerah do his hair...

 

 

 

While the golfers waited for the storm to pass we played games...

 

 

 

 

Dave surprised me by knowing how to do some hand clapping games and demonstrating for Amerah with sister-in-law Monika...

After the tournament was over (and Dave was bummed because he lost by just a smidgen), everyone was pretty tired...

 

And just because they're cute... Emily...

Dylan...

and Tony...

We ended the 4th with a trip down to the Evansville fireworks.  Unfortunately I forgot my camera so I don't have any photos... but the kids were pretty excited to go!