July 4th Festivities!

We have been busy this weekend enjoying our time together and time with friends!  Saturday night, we invited the neighbors over for dinner/cookout.  It was a fun time and a great meal.  We all made different dishes to share and Jared grilled some steak, perfectly, I might add!  Miss Ruth brought a red icing cake and showed it to Ethan before dinner...needless to say, he was wanting to start with dessert.  He kept yelling 'I want cake!' 

Braden, Ethan and Zach having dinner.



They finally got their red cake!  Notice the big boys in the background with the Cardinal game on :)


Sunday, the Village of Mt. Zion, had their annual Blue Ribbon Day/Night.  They held it at a new park in town and doubled it up as a grand opening to the park.  We went to check it out after church and nap.  It was hot, but we had a nice time playing on the playground and walking around the nice new park.

Resting at the playground

Bouncy House!  He wasn't sure what to think at first...

Almost to the top...

Finally made it to slide down.

 The slide and Jared didn't agree very well,  it was more like bouncing down instead of sliding.  Haha.  But the 3 year old little girl after him didn't seem to have a problem :).

A view of the park and festivities from the playground

Photo op by the fountain.

We headed home for dinner and some cooling off before coming back out for the fireworks later that night.  Ethan is usually in bed around 8 or 8:30, but last night was a special occasion and he was up until after 10 (past my bedtime)!  We met up with Heather, Zach and Braden for the fireworks and the boys enjoyed every minute! 

Playing with the glow necklaces before the show started.

Braden

Daddy and Ethan





Grand Finale!

Happy Independence Day!!