4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend.  Saturday we spent the day as a family at Seven Peaks.  The kids always love when Jeremy gets to come with us!  Joe was so excited to show him how brave he's become by going down slides without having any one catch him at the bottom as well as not needing someone to hold onto him in the lazy river.

Monday we got up at 5 am to make it to the East Millcreek parade.  We were there by 7 am and had fun visiting with all the family that joined us.

 

While we were there, we decided to go visit Jeremy's grandparent's house.  Jeremy's dad grew up in this house and Jeremy visited there every Sunday.

The parade was short, but fun.  The kids loved getting so much candy!

After the parade was over, we headed to John and Sharon's for a BBQ. Grandma Beck had made rocket launchers and Joe had a blast with those.

John kept saying how much he missed Camille because she would always pick raspberries.  So Clara and I picked them for him.  Clara had so much fun helping me and she even discovered that she likes raspberries!

After the BBQ, we headed to our house and watched movies until it was dark enough for fireworks.  We got to light the few be bought, but loved watching our neighbor's fireworks too.

I loved watching my kids interact with all our neighbors who were outside with us.  Here Joe is showing me his glow stick while our next door neighbor, Wyatt watches.

Here is Clara (far right) with the Ansah-Antwi kids (they live across the street) with Jade (who lives on our right) and all of Jade's cousins.

At the end of the night, Joe wanted to leave his glow stick on the garage.

We had a fabulous weekend and didn't want Dad to have to go back to work today.  Joe asked me this morning when Dad was going to be sick again so he didn't have to go to work.  :)