4th of July Fun!

We had a great holiday weekend, spending time as a family and having fun with friends. On Friday we walked over to the zoo (loving our new neighborhood that is within walking distance to the zoo and great playground for K!!) and enjoyed watching K enjoy the animals. B, of course, slept through the whole thing!

She was so excited about the "pat-pat goats", but then once we got in the pen, she was a little timid.

They have a cool butterfly exhibit at the zoo, we didn't take too many pictures - the butterflies were busy flying around. But it was fun for K, although she was a little freaked out about them flying all around our heads.

On Saturday we headed over to a friend's parent's house out in the country. Jer got to shoot guns and go fishing. (So patriotic!) I got to hang out with friends while tending to Brenden. Kaelyn and I got to ride a horse, and Kaelyn got to play in the bouncy house and huge slip-n-slide. It was a busy and very fun day.










In the evening we and our good friends the McCauley's (that's their son Noah in the tie-dyed t-shirt) went to Jer's parents house for a cookout and to watch fireworks on their lake. Jer and his brother Trevor got some small fireworks to light off for the kids. For the most part they were a hit, except for the really loud ones, which K didn't like so much. Then when it came time for the big fireworks she really was not excited about it. She kept saying "Cover ears", and putting her hands over her ears and saying "All done fireworks." Again, Brenden slept for most of the day and evening, so because of that and because he's a second child and we're already bad about not taking as many pictures of him - we don't have any pictures of him. :( Oops!