4th of july fun!

Well I'm finally into my pictures for July!

We had a lot of fun hanging at our house and having friends over for the 4th!

I bought ice cream bars (which is a special treat at our house!) and Eli was in heaven!

Good thing Colin was there to catch all of his melted ice cream!

Colin is doing a lot better at wanting to light the fireworks, but we still don't do anything too noisy or loud as Maggie and Eli are not excited about them!

We're fine with that since it keeps the cost of the fireworks low and we can do them before it gets dark out, before bedtimes!

Our neighbor came over and took this picture of us while doing fireworks in our driveway

Eli was sad about a loud one we did (meaning, it fizzled and crackled some, it was definitely NOT loud!)

Maggie had glow sticks on with our older neighbor Zoe, whom she just adores!

So fun!

Then we had some friends over to swim and eat on the 4th!

Such a cute group of kids!

We had a lovely time visiting and the kids all played really well together!

Love this picture of Colin and Eli

We went to Grammie and Grandad's for dinner and the kids all played outside (with the REALLY big kids, too!)

Water balloons were so fun!

The Teson cousins at Grammie and Grandad's house

Happy 4th of July!

Eli got some snake powder on his face - he was a mess!

Maggie and Eli, lounging in our driveway eating some yogurt

and one last cute picture of Eli holding a sparkler!

Happy 4th of July!!!