Happy 4th of July!!

We had a nice day puttering around the house today. Bryan was not feeling well so we didn't do too much, but by the end of the day he was feeling well enough to have dinner (crab legs-isn't that the all American dinner, he keeps insisting that we settled in New England and those guys were eating lobster and crab!) and sparklers after dinner.
Bryan and his girls ('lil firecrackers!)

Our happy little guy

I think we took over 15 shots and this was the best one (even though you can tell Eileen is done having her picture taken)!

At around dinner time we heard firetrucks and ambulances going past our house, when we went to check it out this is what we saw!! I hope everyone is OK, but this was a very teachable moment for the sparklers we were about to light.

Eileen and Olivia enjoying their 4th of July Oreo (an Oreo with whipped cream and red sugar on top).

Olivia holding her sparkler, she didn't enjoy doing them too much this year.

Eileen really enjoyed them this year though, she was as close to fearless as she can get when it comes to this type of thing!

Bryan caught a lightning bug/fire fly in a jar to show the girls, they LOVED it! Before we came in we let it go and Eileen had to say "Good night" to ALL of the lightning bugs in the yard!! (nice stall tactic kid!)

We hope everyone had a safe and happy Independence Day.