4th of July

We celebrated the 3rd of July in Peru at Grandma & Grandpa Z.'s house.  We got there in the late afternoon and this was the scene for quite awhile:

 

We had a family picture taken so we could be sure to compare it to last year - what a difference a year makes!!!

Taken on 7/4/11 - Paige was 2 days old with a full head of dark hair!


Taken on 7/3/12 - Paige at one year and one day old with nearly blond hair and Luke looking mighty grown up himself!



The kids did some coloring with chalk outside!





Miss Avery along with her parents Jes & Charlie came over to watch the fireworks with us!  These girls are getting so big!



Then it was fireworks time!  Can you tell someone was excited?!?!



We headed back to our house late morning on the 4th.  We really just wanted a lazy day and to do some swimming.  We had family pictures taken bright and early Thursday morning so we needed the kids to get a good night's sleep.




Showing our new sign!






The best part of the 4th was probably our pizza party by the pool!

 

She can be so lazy sometimes!!!


Both kids were asleep by their normal bedtimes and the family pictures went pretty well (I think) the next morning.  Let's just say, we were all gross sweaty messes by the end of them and that was at 8:50 in the morning.  Remind me not to do family pictures in July again!