The 4th Times 2!

This year we celebrated the 4th two times!  We had my parents here on Sunday and we cooked and played out back and then the next day Jordan's family was in town.

On the actual 4th we headed to a church right down the road for some fireworks and bouncy house fun.  They had homemade ice cream and hot dogs and hamburgers!

Matthew enjoyed the ice cream....

 

 and John Michael enjoyed the bouncy house, even though he still has problems getting out when his turn is over.

 Here's all 3 boys ready for the 4th!

Happy 4th of July! 

We were very unprepared for fireworks this year.  Luckily, we met up with some of our friends who had brought blankets and lawn chairs.  We were glad they let us borrow some of their chairs! 

 Baby Noah slept most of the time we were there!

 

 

 The fireworks were good and our boys were super interested in them.  I'm not sure they had really seen them before this year!

 For our other 4th of July celebration with Meme and Papa we cooked a yummy meal and let the boys run wild in the back yard.  They swam in their new pool.... 

 and even Noah spent a little time outside with Papa!

 We ate our BBQ outside and the boys were thrilled to eat at their little table.

 We had slow cooker BBQ, corn, baked beans, deviled eggs, and homemade peanut butter pie.  John Michael had never had peanut butter pie before so this was his first time to have any.  I think he liked it!

 Matthew enjoyed his pudding cup and he also rolled around in the dirt in Jordan's garden.  They were SO dirty when they came inside!

 And of course Jackson scrounged around for scraps of food after the boys were done!

 We let the boys play and play until the sun went down and they were brown from being so dirty!  What's more fun than that for little boys?!!

 We were so glad that we had both sets of parents up to celebrate the 4th!  I think it's always nice to celebrate Independance Day with our families!