Happy Fourth of July Weekend!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! We had a quiet-at-home celebration this year. We were supposed to be celebrating the marriage of our good friends Cole and Jessie, but due to a new position at Evan's job, we were unable to leave the state (or, really, a one hour radius of Colorado Springs). Elisabeth was really disappointed because both she and Julia were to be the flower girls and Elisabeth had big plans to wear her swim suit under her flower girl dress so that when the wedding was over, she could take off her dress and be ready to jump into the ocean! (The wedding took place in California on the beach, Elisabeth is not just a crazy). We're so sorry we missed the wedding, and we wish them both the best (especially because they are both starting law school in southern Illinois in the fall...they heart the adrenaline rush, apparently.) Love you guys!!!!!!!


Evan got his Father's Day/Birthday gift right before the 4th festivities...a grill! It's charcoal and a Weber. Julia really liked it...



Figaro enjoyed snacking on the materials it was shipped in.

Julia claimed this as her new home.
Here's Evan showing off his grill.
Check out the clouds! I love clouds.


For the actual holiday, our block had a block party. There was a bouncy house, grilling of food, and running around of children. The weather was super uncooperative, so it rained and stormed all day long. Grump!

Julia wore her Independence Day finest.
The bouncy house/firetruck.
Ebeth's artwork. It's supposed to say Earth+USA=People.
Evan is all bidness when it comes to hamburger makin'.
The flag cookies I slaved over for hours...

Julia sharing the green part of her watermelon with Evan.
Yes, Elisabeth is wearing her helmet to lunch (in the garage due to weather). But, the best part is, she'd already eaten a hamburger at one of the neighbors' houses while Evan was grilling ours, so she just stopped by for sides.




Julia finally got to try out her birthday present. Well, with water at least. It was sitting in our living room and she was crawling in and out of it. The water was freeeezing, but she didn't care at all.




We decided to chance going to the Air Force Academy for fireworks. The city of Colorado Springs decided to cut fireworks from their budget this year, so there were very few places to actually see a fireworks display. Look at the fog covering the mountains that the Academy sits at the bottom of!
There were bouncy houses galore for Ebeth to go on...if you had a ticket...which were $4.00 each!!!!!!! Evan complained and we got two tickets for four dollars. Ridiculous.




This was right before we decided to leave. It started raining again, Ebeth was soaked from the slides being all wet, it was 54 degrees and it was just not fun sitting there waiting.
Elisabeth was the most disappointed ever. It was her 6th fireworks, you know, and that's important (or so she continuously claimed on the car ride home. Thankfully, her Papa is a wonderful genius, and he videoed the fireworks from Pekin on his phone and sent us several videos to watch. It made Ebeth's night!


And here's some Julia showing some July 5th pride...



Hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend!!!!!