Independence Day 2011

The 4th of July has come and gone already???

Both our families were out of town, so it just left us all to ourselves.

We went to the only fireworks being held in our fire-scarred region, in Round Valley on Saturday night. Our cautious Brody, who has previously been afraid of the fireworks, thoroughly enjoyed the display. And Ry is the opposite of his brother and tends to throw caution to the wind, so he bounced on my lap and smiled until he was too tired to care anymore.

Monday we woke up and did not attend the pancake breakfast at the park, and just had our own at home.

We missed the program, free BBQ lunch, and races held at the park later that hot hot day, but we did buy a little pool and set it up and had a Brody swim instead.
We did make it to the park so we could take some cute pictures of the boys in their patriotic red, white, and blue. It was a great idea, but not one that either Brody or Ryder wanted to be a part of. It is hard enough to get one good picture of one wiggly boy, but throw two kids in and its dang near impossible to get a good pic of both of them at the same time!

Brody got fed up 5 minutes in and not even bribary from Dad could get him to take one decent picture.

We have the best snow cone shop I have EVER eaten from, and they had set up their stand at the park so Brody and I decided to share our first snowcone of the year. It was super tasty and a good reward for mom after the fight she had to put up on such a hot day during our mini wanna-be photo shoot.

You just can't celebrate the 4th of July without fireworks on that day. Luckily for us, I found a few fireworks we could light in front of our house, courtesy of our dollar store! Brody told me as he waited for Trevor to light them that he was so "sy-ked" (excited) to see the fireworks!

And finally to end our enjoyable weekend, after we had begged and tried to coax Brody to say happy 4th of July, he climbed in our bed and said, "happy four-jew-why!"