independence day weekend

wow, long overdue for updates! i will do some backposting this week, have some cute pictures to add, but thought it would be timely to post the recent 4th of July weekend. my mom and lynn came down for a visit. saturday the 4th, everyone in the neighborhood decorated their bikes/wagons/strollers and rode behind firetrucks in our own merrimac parade. it was a lot of fun! it started at 8:45 with donuts and coffee in the clubhouse and concluded after the long lap around the neighborhood by 10:30 just as it started to rain.


he was kind of mad there was sparkly garland on his car, oops sorry buddy

he quickly forgot about the garland once we started moving. he colored a patriotic picture at school last week so we afixed his artwork to the hood.

my little poser

the parade lead by two firetrucks with sirens on


i wasn't sure how he'd react to sparky, the giant mascot dog for the fire department. they were fast friends as you can see declan greeted him with a grab of the nose.



big trip to lowe's with a shopping list for our new basement. it is under construction now and will be finished in about 2 weeks. grandpa lynn is teaching declan about power tools in the photo above. good thing, lynn is our only hope in the family for teaching declan some handy skills.