4th of July Weekend

I have uploaded too many pictures from this weekend, but I loved all of them! We had a fun filled weekend. It started off on Saturday evening when we had the McGuffey's over for dinner. We had 8 children running around the house having a blast. They all love to play together and do it so well. Once it got dark out Chris pulled out the fireworks we had and of course the sparklers. Connor HATES fireworks. Anything that is loud he can't stand, but trust me this doesn't stop him from being loud! This is how he stood the whole time and this is after I convinced him to come outside. Sunday we just hung out and did nothing which was so nice. We headed out to dinner that evening with a gift card we had received, which is the only way to go to dinner with four children. During dinner we started a new game called 3 things. Someone chooses a subject like, your 3 favorite colors, food, movies...etc. The answers from Connor were hysterical and it made dinner really fun. Monday morning we headed to our traditional parade on the square of Marietta. It is no Ridgewood parade, but it is fun. Apparently is hurts Connor to smile. Below is pictures of us hanging out before the parade started. Also, we can never have an outing without someone getting upset and recently it is Connor who seems to be upset about something we did or did not do. I can't remember what the issue was this time, but had to include the picture.

Finally the parade started. After the parade we heading home where we just hung out and then it started to rain. We usually head over to the Barbato's house for a big party where all the kids run around like crazy and we watch fireworks from their front yard. They were calling for thunderstorms all evening, but we decided to still go over and hope for the best. At about 8:15 they called them off which was a bummer. Connor had finally warmed up to the idea of watching the fireworks. Right before we left to go home Connor got to hold a Sparkler, which as you can tell he was proud of himself. No fireworks this year, but it was a great weekend.