We had a great time celebrating America's birthday this year. Most of the festivities took place on Saturday the 3rd for us. We were lucky enough to have baby cousin Adelaide, Brenda and Luke here to spend the week at our house. Ryland loved playing with Adelaide. Here is great picture comparison. Adelaide is only 3 months younger than Ryland but he is almost twice her size. Yes, Ryland is trying to sit on her lap in this picture. :)
They loved playing with/eating the letters off of the fridge.
Brenda took this great video for me while she was here. Ryland now calls me Lisa and sometimes Mommy. Seriously, see for yourself.
He probably picked it up from everyone else calling me Lisa, not mommy. :) It is pretty funny and I don't mind. He will figure it out one of these days! Thanks for the movie Bren!
We started off our celebrations with the annual 5K run. Here we are with my sister Kimberly before the race started.
It was a great run and perfect weather for it. We had great weather the whole day Saturday. When have we ever celebrated the 4th in less than 80 degree weather?? I don't think there has been a day yet. It was so nice! After the run we went to the parade. Ryland loved having random people throw him candy just because he clapped for them.
He also loved watching the bands. His facial expression looked basically like this through most of the parade.
He was getting tired and it didn't take long for this to happen after we got in the car.
We spent the rest of the day at the park celebrating with my family. We had a great time! Ryland loved playing on this water table. He LOVES water!
We set up the water slide again as well. That is always a party. Here is Ryland Thomas and Brian showing off their muscles before they went down the slide.
We took Ryland down the slide this year and he loved it! He was a little nervous the first few times, but once he warmed up to it, he didn't want to stop going down.
Ryland also made his own flag. He loved putting the stripes on and attempting to eat the sticker stars. He quickly realized they didn't taste that good.
Here is our attempt at getting a picture with the grandkids. Yep, that is the best I got. Better luck next year!
Lance did an amazing job grillin' it up at the park. We had some awesome carne asada burritos. They were super yummy, thanks Lance!
We also enjoyed this amazing flag cake made by Ann. It looked amazing and tasted as good as it looks!
Ryland loved playing on the playground and would go down the slide a million times with anyone who was willing to take him down. He was in heaven all day with being outside, water and the playground. What more could a kid ask for?
We headed out to fireworks after playing all day. Here is Ryland waiting for them to start enjoying his sucker!
Family picture in our matching shirts! :)
Ryland loved playing with this glow stick. It was great entertainment for him until 1 minute before the fireworks started it decided to break open and explode the glowing-ness all over his face, my face and our clothes! Awesome right? In my hurry to clean it all up I didn't get a picture. I am sure it would have been a good one though!
The fireworks were amazing this year as always. It is great how they sync the music to go with the explosions of the fireworks. Ryland loved watching them for about 10 minutes. It didn't take long for this...
to turn into this...
He was so tired. We had a great day and can't wait for next year already! Happy 4th!
