Happy Fouth of July!!!!

The Fourth came and went "with a BANG!"  Despite the massive heat, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves this year!

We started out with our own fireworks, put on by none other than Jason himself, right in our our front yard! The kids thought it was really cool to watch all the other neighbors light off their fireworks too...it was like a competition.

We lasted only about 40min (actually Keegyn and I lasted only about 30min) before we had to retire to the inside to get away from the heat and the "skeeters."

Keegyn in her "patriotic" outfit! Waiting patiently to head out to the parade.

 God Bless America!!!

Man was it HOT out there...over 100 degrees with the heat index, but these two were troopers!  Good thing Grandpa T had scoped out a good, shaded area under a big tree HOURS before the parade started and claimed our spot! Otherwise we would have lasted less than a minute!

 And with the freezies on board, the heat was a little better tolerated....a LITTLE better

 Lollipops and Capri Suns helped as well!

 This little guy was a candy-catching-machine this year!  His bag was when we left, like he had just gone trick-or-treating.

He even threw some elbows a few times when he saw something he really wanted!

 After an hour straight in that extreme heat, we headed back to Grandma and Grandpa T's to take a dip in the pool!

Man was that refreshing!

 Grandpa and Cale enjoying a friendly game of Water War.  Grandpa is VERY determined in this picture, just look at that facial expression!

"Take that!" 

 Cale's new "summer do"  The Mohawk

 Another favorite activity for Cale when he's at Grandma T's....digging for worms.  Look closely and you can definately see he caught one!

 Keegyn didn't think this looked too hard, so she got right in and joined the quest of "wormin"

 Time for Fireworks....and then BED!  Boy were we exhausted!