Our FOURTH of July!

On the 3rd of July the kids and I visited downtown Marietta Square (a city just south of us) with some of our friends. We went to the fire house museum, which has old trucks, pictures, gear etc. Then we went to a park afterward to have lunch and play. What a fun, free activity!

Alan and I like to eat out for breakfast on some holidays, but it's just not as easy with the kids right now, so I made pancakes instead. This is real silly but Kalin got her arm stuck on some syrup and we just had a great laugh over this. We kept sticking her arm back into the syrup to do it again!
The evening of the fourth we went over to Julie and Tim Norwoods house for a BBQ. They are friends from our ward. The kids ran around squirting each other with squirt guns, by the end of the night they were all practically soaked!

Some of my friends from church! (Stephanie, Karla, Katie and Julie in the background - sorry Julie!)

The kids watching fireworks and the Depews farm.

Sparklers a couple of days later... Porter was actually a bit afraid of them! Funny for a kid who is quite the dare-devil!