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Fourth of July!


Our July 4th this year was pretty good! This was the first time in at least 5-6 years that Don was able to celebrate with us without having to leave early! His days off fall on Sunday and Monday nights, so it happened to fall on his weekend this year. We were so excited until we saw that rain was in the forecast for the whole weekend 🙁 Major bummer! But thankfully the rain cleared and we were able to enjoy the evening together! I just wanted to share a few pictures from our weekend.
Saturday was rainy so we had a red, white, and blue indoor picnic. Strawberries, blueberries, and yogurt bowls. I was able to snap a few pictures–and then faster than I was even able to prepare everything, it was gone.
Kids having picnic
a few iphone pictures with our popsicles and picnic foods
various fourth of july pictures

 

On Sunday night, we let the older boys stay up to watch fireworks from the deck with us. It was so sweet to make that memory with them. We happen to have an amazing view of tons of fireworks displays from our house. We also planned to take some fun sparkler pictures together but didn’t get too far into it until our lighter ran out of fluid. So this was the best we got. I think they’ll remember that night with us for a while though. They were so giddy to stay up with us.

slow shutter fireworksinstagram firework

I’ll be honest–the morning of the 4th just started out bad. I was really feeling the pregnancy hormones. It didn’t help that it was super gloomy and I thought that our evening may be ruined. I was grumpy and I’m not proud. But the day finally turned around and we had a fun evening!
Jessica and Evangeline
Jessica and Desmond

Various 4th of July PicturesKids WalkingKids and a puddleDon throwing Desmond in the air

Thanks to my sweet friend, Mayci, for snapping a few family shots for us! Wouldn’t you know it? Never all looking good at the same time 😉
Roberts Family Group Shot
Kingston with a popsicle
The boys were off with their friends most of the evening, shooting off fireworks. But I had to snap one shot of Don and Liam in their matching outfits.
Don and Liam
I thought FOR SURE that she was going to be terrified of holding the sparkler. Then she did 6 in a row and was still begging to do more!
Evangeline with a sparkler

 

My BFF and her husband celebrated their one year anniversary on the 4th so we had a little re-creation of their first dance–plus a new baby that will be making her appearance very soon here! I thought it was adorable to see my kids watching.
Evangeline 4th of July

 

I also thought this little guy would be terrified of fireworks. Turns out he loves them! So no scared little ones this year!!
Don and Desmond
Don and Desmond 2

I hope everyone else had a great holiday weekend and an easy recovery. I’m still recovering after a couple days–that’s #momlife for you. We still have some sparklers and a few other little fireworks left over so we’ll be getting some use out of those!

And thanks to everyone who voted on the blog title! It’s still yet to be determined but now we’re one step closer to figuring it out! Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

 

 

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Celebrate America


Each year, First Baptist Church of Arnold has a ‘Celebrate America’ event. There’s food, rides, a car show, a motocross show, and fireworks. This is our second year going. We met up with some families from church and enjoyed a fun night with beautiful weather.
little boy and girl holding hands

 

boy wearing hat smiling
Kai had just found a ladybug, so he was a bit distracted
two little boys smiling

 

fourth of july
two sisters smiling

 

married couple

 

a picture of a a picture being taken of a corndog inside of a corndog
even more extreme than Maggi’s #corndoginception
food pictures

 

mom and baby

 

fair foods are always a good choice
food pictures

 

toddler getting piggy back ride

 

dad and baby

 

woman holding baby
(photo by Kai)
young woman and baby

 

patriotic red white and blue shoes

 

boy and girl holding hands

 

cute baby
little boy patiently waiting
toddler boy looking amazed

 

motorcycle stunt show

 

first baptist church arnold firework show

 

fbca fireworks

 

4th of july first baptist church of arnold

I was so sure that Evangeline and Kingston would hate the fireworks. Evangeline actually giggled while watching them–which I guess pushed her into a slaphappy mood for the next hour, giggling about anything, everything, and nothing. Kai had a momentary breakdown from being scared, but he recovered quickly in his daddy’s arms.
It was such a fun evening! So glad that we went!