Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Fourth

The Fourth of July was awesome this year! We loved spending it with our good friends. The food was delicious and it was so great to just relax for hours and enjoy the night. Bill did a great job doing fireworks for us as it started to get dark and then we had a nice view of the city's fireworks show after that. I love this holiday so much. It makes me so grateful for our lovely country and the immense freedom we enjoy. Sarah always makes these darling festive fruit kabobs every year and all the kids love 'em.
The kids played a lot and had a great time while waiting for the fireworks. Jump roping, chasing, scooters, bike-riding, paper airplanes, Bill's binoculars, laughing. This is a train the kids formed. So cute!
Ben made dessert. Homemade ice cream and this delicious trifle! Pudding, whipped cream, cake, and berries. So so good!
Love the Fourth of July!
Luke REALLY enjoyed the dessert--can you tell?
One of my favorite pics of the night--the kids love baby Alyssa. You can just see the adoration in their faces!
Thanks to Lauren, Max enjoyed the trifle too!
There's just something about dads and babies. I love it.
Chilling on the blanket before fireworks
Happy Independence Day!!!

2 comments:

William J. Familia said...

The Luke eating dessert pic is awesome! Good times!

Sarah F. said...

A great holiday spent with some of our favorite people! I love the picture of Lauren feeding Max. She loved doing that. And all the kids with their cabobs in the air Funny. I have no idea why they did that, but its cute. And Bill and Ben with Max and Alyssa....I love that picture too. Such a fun day!