Fourth of July

Kids love Jesse. Usually he buys their love with candy, spare change, or Russian death spins, but this last weekend he tried a new approach: pulling teeth. We went to his Uncle Dean's on Saturday for an early 4th get together. Jesse's cousin Mari's daughter Anna (got all that?), who was visiting from their home in Italy, had a loose tooth and let Jesse have a go at it. Why was she so willing? It might have had something to do with Jesse and I telling her that the Idaho tooth fairy pays 5 dollars per tooth...

Here are some more pictures from that night. Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the blanket going up in flames...

See? Mari was so happy to find out about the tooth fairy's new rates.

Because every 7/11 has a stuffed bear...

The fruits of our picking labors earlier that day.