Happy 4th of July!!

We hope that everyone had a great holiday!! We ended up having a jam packed weekend of fun, water, and family!!! On Sunday, we ended up joining Shannon and Mike for their block party. Jadyn and Riley had a ball together. They were so cute walking around holding hands all night. Payton was a great girl as usual and hung in until about 11 at night. After enjoying great food and a great fireworks show put on by Uncle Mike and some of the other neighbors, we headed back to their house for some night swimming and a sleepover. The big kids were up until about midnight and loving all their time together.

On the 4th we were invited to join them at the Homewood parade. Jadyn and Shannon were going to march in the parade with her friend who volunteers for the Humane Society. They invited Riley to also join them. The girls got extra festive and did a great job throwing out the candy! They made it the whole way without any complaining Auntie Shannon said. Payton and Eli enjoyed watching the parade and Eli especially loved all the candy! He did so much bending over for candy that he started to lose his pants:) This entertained us grown ups WAY too much and I couldn't help snapping a picture...hehe. When the parade was over we joined them at the end and enjoyed a little of the family festival. Then Riley "twisted" our arms to go back to do a little more swimming. This time Payton got to join us. She LOVES the water and was loving going down the water slide! At first we tried in her little "boat" but it kept getting stuck so then Mike started taking her. She was ALL smiles. A great big thanks to Shannon and Mike for inviting us over to their house to join in on ALL these fun activities!!! We all had a GREAT 4th of July!!! (And thanks to Grammy, Papa, and Bika for Diesel sitting so that we could have this sleepover!)