Two weeks in July

As I am sure you are aware, my lack of posting has not gotten any better over the past month. However, I do have some updates and photos for you!

We had a fun 4th of July and days around it. Dylan loved the fireworks, snakes, and sparklers. We didn't go to a big fireworks display, but we did go over to our neighbors to set off a few fireworks for the kids. That seemed to be enough entertainment for the 5 and under crowd.

We also went to the Farragut 4th of July parade with friends. The boys had a great time getting all the candy and fun stuff the people were throwing out.

Still a cheesy smile.

Keeping a close eye on his sparkler.

Dylan and I have continued our Saturday morning trips to the Market Square Farmers Market. Dylan must get a cream cheese roll from VG's bakery and I have been stocking up on tomatoes until our plants started producing tomatoes.

We also made it to our first drive-in movie as a family. We all had a great time watching Brave. The next day was not as exciting since Dylan didn't sleep in after staying up until midnight...

Eating popcorn and waiting for the drive-in movie to start!

Fireworks and more!

We had a great long 4th of July weekend. Saturday we went boating with friends, Sunday Dylan and I went to the zoo and Monday we went out to Tennessee National for their annual bbq and fireworks. I had to work during the bbq, so Dylan got to go out on the golf course with Dave, Chad and Andrew. Afterwords Dylan had fun (trying) hitting balls with Brandon and Andrew.

Dylan needs to work on his form.

I think all the boys have range kid jobs in their futures!

I also took some fireworks photos, these are the best of what I took. I'm still not super happy with them though. Fireworks photography is hard!

I like this one a lot, the bottom two fireworks look solarized.

One of my favorites.

I like this one because the firework on the left looks like a palm tree!

Parades and Fireworks

We started our 4th of July holiday weekend off with the annual Farragut 4th of July parade. It was Dylan's first parade and he had a great time. We met our friends Stacy, Tyler and Cooper and the parade and Dylan had a good time playing with Tyler. There were lots of floats, boats, cars, bands and all the usual parade fare. And there was Elmo. Dylan loves Elmo, but I'm not sure what he thought when he saw a huge Elmo in person. I think he was a little scared, but that wore off rather quickly and he gave Elmo a big hug. He also loves the Chick-fil-a cows. He ran as fast as he could to the cows and gave one a huge hug. I'm surprised he didn't knock the cow over as fast as he ran at it!


Sunday night we went over to our friends Meredith and Lukes house for a 4th of July BBQ. They had great food and we had a really good time running around the backyard with Dylan and playing bags and badmitten. Dylan also had lots of fun kicking the ball around the yard with Luke.

Meredith and Luke live close to a golf course community that has fireworks every year, so as it started to get dark we walked over to claim our spot for the fireworks. Since it was Dylan's first time seeing fireworks I wasn't sure how he would react, but he did great! He was a little scared when they were first shot off, but then he was fine. He just stayed very close to me the entire time. We didn't get home until close to 11pm, so Dylan had a very late night and luckily slept in until 8:30am on Monday morning and then took a 3.5 hour nap on Monday afternoon!