4th of July

Yesterday we celebrated the 4th of July with some friends from our Bible Study.  Vilo and Dawn invited us and another couple to their house.  Vilo and Dawn have 4 girls so Julia had a blast.  :)  First, we went to their community swimming pool.  Then we went back to their house for a BBQ.  After that, we walked to a local park to see the fireworks at the mall.  It was a LATE night for our kiddos, but they had fun and so did we.  :)

The girls eating their dinner

 

Caleb chowing down (he sure can eat a lot!)

 

The men BBQing

 

Our family...  This year I bought matching shirts at Old Navy.  I couldn't resist.  :)

 

When Dawn was handing out ice cream sandwiches, Caleb reached out and grabbed one and tried so hard to eat it.  But, he doesn't quite know how to bit into things, yet.

 

But then he figured out how to get the ice cream out with his fingers.  He loved it.

 

Julia didn't like how loud the fireworks were.  :)  She covered her ears the whole time...  She kept saying, "Can we go home, now?"  Poor girl.  But at one point she did say, "The fireworks are so pretty."  It's funny that she was actually smiling for this picture!  She was a trooper, despite the fact that she didn't really want to see the fireworks.

 

Caleb would cry everytime a loud firework boomed.  so, I picked him up and he immediately fell asleep on my shoulder.  It was so precious!