Saturday we headed to see some local fireworks, the icing on the cake to the Independence Day celebrations, which started on July 5th with our annual cookout with our friends. And of course, it's all documented in photo form!
July 4th it rained. It poured. It was basically a washout of a day. So we hung at home and ordered some Chinese food. The storm was clearing just in time for our annual cookout with our friends. Of course, no July 4th is complete without the annual Old Navy Flag Tee picture!
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| 2014 |
Just look how much they have grown:
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| 2011 |
On July 5th, as the meteorologist predicted, the weather was picture perfect! We headed to our friends house and the kids immediately jumped into the pool!
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| Evan just chilling! |
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| The kids had so much fun swimming! It wasn't hot enough outside to get me in the pool this year! |
The traditional menu is steak and lobster! The kids always get a kick out of seeing the lobsters before they are cooked.
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| Thomas is NOT impressed! |
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| Steak, lobster, orzo salad, and my strawberry iced tea (of the Long Island variety!) |
We had desserts and then toasted marshmallows with the kids before the men got the stuff ready for sparklers and the fireworks display!
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| Ready for cake! |
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| Isabella was sad she didn't get any lobster! |
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| The handsome 4 year olds! |
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| S'Mores! |
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| Thomas ready to toast his marshmallow! |
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| This IS summer! |
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| Nicholas ready preparing his marshmallow |
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| Can you believe these two will be THIRD graders?! |
Gotta get some pictures of the grown ups too!
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| Sparklers! |
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| Ready for the fireworks! |
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| Moe, Larry and Curly get the show started! |
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| Ooooh! Ahhh! |
July 6th, the boys and I went to my parents camp to celebrate my Mom's birthday! It was another gorgeous day and the kids enjoyed swimming in the pool and having cake with Grammy!
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| Ready, set, GO! |
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| JUMP! |
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| Boys of Summer! |
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| Uncle David helps toast marshmallows! |
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| S'mores = Summer! |
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| Happy Birthday Mom! |
Because of the rain we were not able to see the local fireworks we had planned to see, and since most towns rescheduled for when we would be at our cookout I was glad to see a sign for another local town having them on the 12th! We had been to these fireworks before, they were really great. They host a carnival at the middle school and shoot off the fireworks at dusk. Since it was the 250th anniversary of the town, the display was extra big! And it was one of the best local fireworks displays I have ever seen!
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