Happy 4th

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! We were super busy around here and had a great time. We had a firework show in our backyard, a sleepover with our pals, played putt-putt, went to the pool, saw 2 huge firework shows, bbq'd with the neighbors, played on a giant inflatable water slide, and watched a parade from our front yard! Pretty awesome, and a little exhausting, weekend. Here are a ridiculous amount of pics from the fun.

Starting out the weekend with smiles - he has a huge opened mouthed smile, just like Alec did

Our beef-cake

With the Hoeltings

Sparklers in the yard

Alec was very serious about it


Yes, Alec has his finger up his nose in the only pic with me in it from the night

Watching the show from their new double seater - Christie got it to bring with us on our 2 camping trips we have planned for the summer

Love Alec's face



Water balloons the next morning

Heading over to the Wheaton fireworks


Up way past bedtime and very happy about it

We were a little worried with how Charlie would do with the super loud fireworks, especially considering it was a few hours after his bedtime, but he surprised us both. He was completely fascinated and loved watching them



Enjoying a festive holiday donut in the yard before the parade

Getting out all the toys

Alec and Morgan, our neighbor who is only 2 weeks older than Alec, played together for about 10 hours straight yesterday.



Charlie loved the parade too






Again, Charlie wasn't phased at all by any of the loud noise or chaos all around him





Getting some love from all the neighbor girls

What a fun weekend!