Our little independents on Independence Day!

Today is July 4th. We started it off like any other day except daddy was home with us! We are so excited when daddy gets to be home with us! The best part of my day was taking the kids to the park before the fireworks started. it is fun to watch them run and play on the playground. A few things that made me really laugh and filled me with sheer joy:

Boyd holds the camera and pretends to take a picture and says, "CHEESE!!"

Brynlee wraps her arms as tight as she can around my neck now to give me a hug.

Boyd gives me all the kisses I could ever want and more! ladies be ware! :)

Last night when watching Despicable Me, they wouldn't take their eyes off of it no matter what we did to distract them. It is fun to watch especially bryn's face as she begins to understand funny parts to movies and then laughs or smiles at her favorite parts.

They both say tate you (thank you) at applicable times.

Tonight I watched with nothing but pure joy as Eric held Boyd and I held Bryn and we watched the fireworks. I admit, I mostly just watched the faces of my children. they are more beautiful than any firework I could ever see. And it is especially adorable to watch their faces light up when they see the lights....and just to realize how truly blessed we are to live in this country and to be able to celebrate our freedoms!!

And in other news: Brynlee has learned to say "shoo fly" whenever she sees a fly in the house!

and when Boyd gets really scared, he now will run to you, jump in your arms and hide his little face as far into your neck meat as he can get. sometimes I want him to be scared on purpose. ;)