Happy Birthday America

God Bless America and my babies!

Tyler and Ethan enjoying the sparklers!

This is Maddie's first outing at the zoo with a large group of friends.

How cute is this!!?? They rode around the zoo like this whenever Tyler took a break long enough to sit. Notice how they both have a snack.

Here's Tyler with the birdhouse he build at Home Depot with his Daddy.

What a great weekend this has been! Shouldn't we always have three day weekends? I mean who decided that five days of work and only two days of family time was fair? Someone really should change that rule. Anyway.....my poor angels have had such a fun week and weekend but boy are they beat. Monday we spent the morning at the zoo and then swam at Maw Maw and Paw Paw's (it was such a fun day) where Tyler decided to start running from the highest part of the deck and take a flying leap like Superman into the pool! Then on Tuesday and Wednesday he went to school and Nana's while Maddie and I had time to get some things done and squeeze in lots of snuggles. And Thursday we decided to so some shopping and meet daddy at work but I made a horrible mistake of forgetting Tyler's laptop. We were on the other side of the airport when I remembered and Tyler was begging me to turn around and go get it but it was just to far. Finally, we convinced him that daddy needed him to help him do other things at work besides working on the computer and that was going well until we got back from lunch and people kept asking him where his computer was! I'll never make that mistake again! Then after a short nap we decided to kick off the holiday by swimming and going to a firework show until late that night.

So for the fourth we had a cookout at Maw Maw's and Paw Paw's then that night we shot some fireworks with friends that Aunt Rhonda was so sweet to give us. Followed by a fun day of Home Depot Day for the boy's and daddy's and shopping for the girl's and mommy's and another cookout. Whew, these babies are tired but they love being with family and friends! When Tyler was getting ready for bed he was complaining that his legs hurt and then said, "So, what are we doing tomorrow, is it Paw Paw's workday or can we mow?