Fourth of July Photo Recap

Despite the fairly cool and rainy weather, the W. family had a good holiday yesterday. After sleeping in way too late, we headed over to Aunt Melissa and Uncle Mark's for the annual July 4th cookout.

Ready for the pool

Wesley swam as much as he could until the rain became too heavy and the water too cold.

Right about this time Ryan discovered the water in this pool is much colder than the water in the pool at Grandpa and Grandma P.'s pool. When we told him that was because Grandpa and Grandma's pool is heated, Ryan demanded, "Then someone heat this pool RIGHT NOW!"

Ryan warming up on the deck

A look of bliss because he was eating chocolate while standing in the pool

Ryan unwrapping chocolate while staying wrapped up in the towel

The rain didn't hold off all day, so we spent part of the afternoon inside, which was no hardship for this family!

Duane's cake was an ode to Cyrus

The one and only Cyrus

Cyrus, Wesley and Bella

Bella

Wesley and Bella took a nap

Ryan and Cyrus

Cyrus and Uncle Mark

Ryan playing Wii

cousin Kierstin, Kierstin's friend, cousin Mark and Duane playing video games.

After the cookout, we stopped by to see Uncle Kirk and Aunt Susan, and Grandma and Grandpa H. before heading home.

Wesley walked home from Grandma and Grandpa's while reading his book. He did look both ways to cross the street, but other than that, his nose was buried in the pages. I love it!

Our plan was to go to the community fireworks display, but we were pretty tired and weren't sure the rain would hold off, so we decided to just do sparklers and glowsticks in our driveway. Turned out to be a good plan because we had a steady drizzle the whole time we did sparklers.

We had a fun, low stress holiday. Hope yours was too!