happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July!Here's Abby in her onesie dress. (Anyone still interested in a tutorial? Maybe I'll have time to get that together this week!)

This has become a tradition - Shawn gets all dressed up for the parade, and we get a shot of him in the front yard with the kids. In our town, we have the parade the night of the 3rd. It's about 1-1/2 hours long. The amount of candy is pretty amazing, so the kids have a ball!The best part - all we have to do is invite our friends & go sit in our front yard!!! We have a picnic before the parade - yummmmm.... Then when the parade's done, we bring out popsicles, throw our parade watching stuff back in the garage, and go play in the back yard. We watch the kids chase lightning bugs, twirl on the swings, let our kids do sparklers ("it's like lightning bugs on a stick" one kid said) - and go to bed way too late. I love summer!

Hope you enjoy your weekend!