4th of July fun

Our 4th of July was so fun! We had a wonderful day out in the sun at my In-Laws house,  Jeremy had to do some work on my father-in-law's, Rex, truck so he headed over there early in the morning to get started.  I packed up the boys bikes, inflateable pool, sidewalk chalk, and bubbles and headed over around 10.  We unloaded, filled the pool, and had fun!  This is the first time we have been able to do the inflateable pool since its been so hot and we don't have a water hose outside.  So the boys really enjoyed it and I really enjoyed watching them and joining in some! 

Jeremy got done with his work around 2 so headed home for naps.....which were heavenly....then went to eat at our favorite Chinese buffet.  We debated going to a fireworks show in Easley or Greenville but since most of them didn't start until 9 or 9:30 decided not to.  We knew the traffic would be awful getting home and Jeremy had to work early in the morning so we just picked up a small variety pack of fireworks and sparkelers and headed home  We didn't wait until it was all the way dark but it was close enough around 8:30 so had a blast shooting them off.  Jonah was all into all of them.  Tucker couldn't figure out if he liked the sparkelers or if he was afraid of them but he held them anyways.  Both boys loved all the other fireworks.  Tucker even loved the smoke from them. lol

Here's a few pictures from our fun filled day:

Jonah blowing bubbles.

Tucker filling up the pool.

Water gun fight with Uncle Austin.

Tucker and Jonah laughing about the water gun fight.

Poppa even got in on the fun!

Tucker riding his bike.  He found a small hill on Nonna and Poppa's from walkway that he loved going up and down. He rode his bike more than anything that day.

Sidewalk chalk fun.

Racing bikes together.

Playing fetch with Oscar.

Picnic inside at Nonna's and Poppa's.

Our little firwork assortment.  Mostly ended up being small fountains that just lit up really pretty.

Sweet Tucker after eating watermelon.

Sparkelers!

Tucker and his sparkeler.  He kept shaking them trying to blow them out.  Didn't quite understand the concept of it being lit up.

Jonah  had a blast with his sparkeler!

Waiting for Daddy to light the fireworks!

Me and my big boys.  Love Tucker's face. lol

Amazed at the fireworks and tired after a long day.

Biggest firework we had. lol.  Wasn't much but it made us happy and we were done by the boys normal bedtime. :)

Hope you all had a fabulous 4th of July.

Finally back!

Wow I can't believe its been almost 2 months since I posted last.  And boy what a busy 2 months it has been.  The week of my last post was an absolutely awful week where 3 major things in our lives totally broke.  Our car transmission went out, our macbook hardrive crashed for the 4th time, and our washing machine broke! Needless to say it was a VERY STRESSFUL week.  Even as I type this I am having to keep myself calm just thinking about it.  God truly has shown His love and car for us through all this providing us with a free laptop and washer until we can get ours fixed.  As for the car, we found out it is going to cost more than the car is worth to get it fixed so we will be buying a new one with our tax return.  For now Jeremy is driving his Dad's little S10 truck.  It is only a two seater which has been a challenge since there are four of us in our family but God has given me patience to be 'stuck' at home most of the time.  I am not saying it has been easy the whole time but He has helped me through.



Jonah helping Tucker up the hill in our front yard.  I love this picture!

 We had a great Thanksgiving spent in the mountains of NC with Jeremy's family.  We haven't seen them much lately and really enjoyed the time with them.  I started my Christmas gifts that week and they continued on up until the week of Christmas.  I made a total of 70 homemade gifts in about a month!!! I did not plan on making that many when I made my initial Christmas list but just kept finding stuff I wanted to make so I did! Hopefully I can get back into regular blogging and do some post showing what all I made.

My honey and our youngest Tucker.

Family picture at the Roper Mountain Lights.

Me and my big boy Jonah

We had a wonderful Christmas! We went down to my families and really just enjoyed our time.  My grandmother isn't doing well so we are so thankful we were able to go.  We rented a van which was super nice for the trip with plenty of room which was good cause the boys got spoiled as usual! Jonah was really into Santa this year and left frosted and sprinkled animal cookies with fruit punch for him on Christmas eve.  Usually I will bake a batch of cookies and let him decorate them for Santa but we truly just relaxed and enjoyed each other.  My parents had a Santa tracker on their tv so we switched it on Christmas Eve and he was in Puerto Rico.  We showed Jonah on their map where we were and he got so excited and started saying we had to hurry and get to bed cause he was close! It was so funny.  He went right to sleep and woke up to a note from Santa for him and Tucker.  I love making these little memories with them. 

New years was very quiet.  We just stayed at home and worked around the house.  Now we are just trying to get back into the swing of things.  We are looking forward to just seeing what God has in store for us next.  Hoping it doesn't have anything to do with any more major things breaking!