4th of July 2009

For the 4th, we went to Ben's parents house for lunch and grilled chicken, shrimp, and ribs with corn & potato salad. It was SO yummy and I was definitely stuffed afterwards!! After lunch we watched a movie while Olivia took a nap.

For dinner, we headed down to the annual 4th of July Lakesite picnic and saw lots of friends and neighbors we rarely see! Everyone was very surprised to see that O wasn't quite the baby she was last year! The BBQ and food was wonderful, as usual!

Olivia especially enjoyed this yummy cupcake!

After dinner, we went home and hung out before going back to the park for fireworks. We had a fun little photo shoot and then lit some sparklers.

Olivia held her first sparkler!! She was VERY serious about it and wouldn't even smile haha! She doesn't look like she's having very much fun but she kept asking for more and laughing in between lit ones!


This was her face when she saw the first couple big fireworks of the night at the Lakesite park... she liked them, but I don't think she liked all the noise they made.

Some of the great fireworks we saw!! Afterwards, we went home and set off some fireworks Ben had picked up in Rhea Co. O was VERY interested in what they were doing up on the road!! We did some more sparklers and headed to bed close to midnight!! It was a long but fun day!!