Fourth of July, 2011

What a fun July 4th we had this year!!  We met up at Sandhills with a bunch of our great friends from our Sunday School class and everyone had such a great time.  The boys had so many friends to play with and the adults enjoyed the time together.  We all brought some fun snacks to share with each other and the kids... the favorite treat that night was what the Beam family brought, Popsicles!  I think Caroline, Chase & Jacob were the only kids to enjoy them that night before it started raining but at least they were able to enjoy them that night! 

The Morris family brought super fun sparklers that were enjoyed by the kids... the big kids (Trey & Chase) especially!  It took a second for Chase to get used to them... the first one scared him a little because he thought he was going to get burned but once he realized he would be fine he loved them!

Luke sat in his stroller most of the evening... he was super content as long as he had puffs to eat and Ginga (a.k.a Grandma) near by! :)

The big kids enjoyed running around and playing football together.  You can tell by their rosy cheeks how hard they all played!  Sweet Halle hung out on the blanket for most of the time, Katie was passed around and loved smiling at everyone, Lucy was still pretty cozy in her mama's belly and Avery spent the evening practicing her walking skills.

A little while after being at Sandhills a storm rolled in and out of nowhere it poured on us!  We all scrambled to our cars and sat it out for a little while about an hour.  As soon as we thought it was never going to stop raining it cleared up and we all reconvened in front of our cars.  Thank goodness the Ross' thought ahead and brought Wes' truck because it came in very useful to put all the kids in.  They all piled into the back of his truck and watched the show from there!

I love all of these sweet faces and loved seeing them all experience the fireworks show!  Can't wait to do this again next year!!!