4th of July

There are lots of reasons why we love our new neighborhood, but the block party on the 4th gave us just one more. One of our neighbors organized the whole thing with a bounce house, picnic, parade, and even t-shirts. And it was a PARTY! The morning began with a parade involving all kinds of festively decorated "floats"--bikes, strollers, wagons...even dog strollers (I'm not kidding!) The entire evening concluded with fireworks, which came with mixed reactions from the crowd...

the parade

Ty

this is how he watched the fireworks the entire time :)

Drew was slightly underwhelmed by the fireworks

daddy showed Drew where to look for the fireworks