Happy Fourth of July (belated!)

I couldn't let a holiday slip by without some cute pictures of Mr. Max, now could I?

I found his picture from last fourth of July on my phone and I absolutely had to do a little comparison...this comparison led to my ovaries twitching just a bit. :)  It's honestly a little mind blowing how much he changed in a year!

 

 

We were leaving for Oregon on July 5th - so I knew we would not be getting together with my Dayton family...which as everyone knows made me a little sad.  In fact, I contemplated driving down there after work (yes, work...more on that later) - but once I talked it over with Papa Rob, we agreed it was probably best to stay put.  Wahhh!  What's a girl to do?  Well, this girl decided to make the most of it...starting with work! 

 

(Red, white, and blue beauties!)

 

We had a half day session of "cheetah camp" on Friday morning. 

The gals and I decided to grab some breakfast at Scramblers beforehand and putting our best patriotic foot foreward.  In this case - it was not a foot, but rather with hair accessories! 

Thank you to Becky for providing all of the lovely bows, hair ties, and headbands!

The morning actually passed quickly and before I knew it - I was reunited with my boys!

 

(Obligatory family photo...like you do :)

 

Rob knew I was really bummed about not having any "exciting" plans (aka parties, fireworks, and barbeques) - so he suggested taking a walk at our favorite park.  Turns out they were trying to be festive too!  The naturalists at the park had prepared lots of red, white, blue, stars, and even stripes biofacts.  The three of us had fun looking at pictures of constellations, touching the fur of a "striped" skunk, and Max and Rob even compared their wingspan to that of a very patriotic bird..the Bald Eagle!

 

(Fly like an eagle!)

 

After our time in the nature center, we took a little stroll on the paved multi purpose trail before heading home!

 

(Tearing up the trails!)

 

Once home - we had a family barbeque...complete with happy hours on the deck!! 

 

(Turns out happy hour looks a little different with a toddler in the mix)

 

We served hot dogs, baked beans, deviled eggs, and zuchinni fries...all of our favorites :)  Max ate almost a whole hot dog, tried the baked beans and zuchinni fries, and opted for some pears too!

 

(Dining al'fresco on the Fourth)

 

We gave Max a patriotic send off to bed...and it was time for some sparklers! 

 

(I'm not sure what's happening with Rob's eyes...other than a blinding flash?)

 

The cool part was that as we were doing our sparklers...Worthington's fire works were going off just above our treeline.  So - we got a good view of some real fireworks after all. 

It turned to be a great little holiday with the three of us...

XoXO