Happy Birthday, America!

The Fourth of July kind of snuck up on me this year. We don't ever really have any major plans but this year we really didn't! We spent most of the day at the casa...me trying to clean the new floors and Tommy was mowing the yard with the little munchkin! To our surprise the weather was actually nice...after DAYS of rain, the sun was shining and it was beautiful!

After lunch we decided to take advantage of the pool, and went for a swim at Tom and Dianne's! I love THEM having a pool! Tanner LOVES it too! He has NO fear of the water which is good and bad! He jumps in, gets his face wet, and refuses to wear floaties or sit in a float! Here is a picture of the water baby...
Tommy was able to go swimming with us too. Munchkin wouldn't let go of that ball...I only wish you could see his little face! He was having a grand ole' time!

Tanner wouldn't look at the camera and my hair was ridiculous but here is a family picture...there aren't very many of these so you take what you can get! Dianne graciously took the camera and snapped away! On a side note, I have these dumb "baby hairs" (as seen here)around my face that popped up after I had Tanner. They are SLOWLY growing out but I told Tommy it looks like "White Trash" hair. Yikes! I think they are a pretty common but boy I am ready for these things to grow out! But until they do, I will have terrible ponytail hair! Anyone else have this issue??

After swimming for a while, we headed up to the church for their 4th of July celebration. It started at 5, but Tanner was napping. So we headed to Sonic for a drink...FYI: "Sparkling" Lemonade = Disgusting!!!! Then I snapped a few pictures of the cute chapel in front of our church. I was a little disappointed that the flag was wrapped around the pole. Oh well...here is one of the shots.

After Tanner woke up, he didn't stop. The boy could wear the energizer bunny out! We chased him all around. Luckily, they had these play toys near our "camp" that kept him busy for a while. Once he got tired of that, he wondered around...everywhere! Tommy was a sport and chased him the majority of the night so I could socialize with the girls from our SS class!

The night ended with a fireworks show from the Katy Mills Mall parking lot. People gather at our church on Fourth of July so they decided to just make it a community outreach this year. They sold food and had jump houses for the kids. It was a fantastic night! Here is a not so great photo of the fireworks as we were leaving. We left early so we would miss the traffic! Fireworks are NOT an easy subject for an amature to photograph!!

Happy Birthday, America! I am PROUD to be an American!