Fourth of July 2015

We spent the 3rd of July doing some shopping in the morning



and then swimming and more swimming the rest of the day...until this happened...



I noticed her eyelid was a little swollen when her and I were in Target. And then throughout the day it just kept getting worse. She never complained about it or itched it, but it was getting big enough that I thought an urgent care trip was necessary (our first EVER with any of the kids believe it or not!). They think it was an infection from a bug bite so we got some medicine (always fun to give to Paige - yikes!) and continued our 3rd of July with a fire and s'mores!





The next morning, on the 4th, we hit up a parade and a park and an ice cream shop!



(Notice Paige has her glasses on - her eye was still really swollen!)



He's wondering what all the sirens are about!















Her poor eye :(



Then we had some friends over to cookout!





And then these two continued their date with some fireworks!



It was a great 4th of July weekend!

4th of July Weekend

Our original plan was to head to Peru for the fireworks on the 3rd of July, but once those were cancelled, we decided to stay put just in case baby decided to come super early!

So our new plan was to catch some fireworks by us on the 3rd instead!  And that we did!



On the morning of the 4th, we headed to a parade in the town I work in!





























After gathering more candy than one could ever need, we hit up a park and went out to lunch. Then it was back home to swim! This little Miss fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep when we brought her in, but unfortunately she didn't wake up on the right side of the bed!





She finally cheered up a bit to play some basketball!







We considered going to a carnival and more fireworks that night, but both kids were pretty moody so we decided on just cooking out and some sparklers in the back yard!

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!