One Great 4th of July

We had an awesome 4th of July - to start with, we headed to the beach with the Saunders fam. It was HOT HOT HOT! The kiddos had fun in the sun and surf. We headed home after lunch for some much needed naps for the boys.

Beach Baby Carter

In the evening we had a get-together with some friends to watch the fireworks from our home. You can catch the Mt Trashmore fireworks with much less fanfare (and traffic). Plus we have the golf course behind us which proves to be a BLAST for the kids. We are so blessed to have such good friends here that we can celebrate these good times with!

And added bonus - we challenged the men to show us their cartwheels - and surprisingly, all of the men obliged. I've documented their 'moves' below.....

Uncle Paul 'tossing' Carter in the air.... I don't think Carter minds, do you?

my precious little firework

Natalie was AWESOME with the boys - she played baseball with them on the golfcourse -here Parker is batting and Anderson & Ryan are playing in the outfield while Greyson is in the 'on deck' circle....

And the rockets red glare.....
Parker, Alexander, Ryan & Anderson

Watching intently ....
Anderson, Ryan, Alexander, Parker & Greyson

Wow!!!!

Chris Purcell starting off the cartwheel showdown...

Uncle Paul doing his stuff...

Kevin 'attempting' to do a cartwheel....
Mark showing-off his cartwheel or should we say 'round-off'...

Dave Ratz performs...