Independence

Our 4th of July was pretty low key. We were planning on just staying home and letting Brandon get a little more work done. He is almost done with the children's book he is working on and wants to finish before the baby comes (7:45 am on Friday, July 9th).

We love a good distraction and were able to have some new friends come over for a BBQ and fireworks in front of the house. Even though it should just be expected in Washington, we were bummed that it is the beginning of July and we were still wearing sweatshirts and bundled in blankets to keep warm. We shot off our fireworks and then joined the neighbors for popcorn, dessert and watched their (and the rest of Sunrise neighborhood's) firework display.

Sam was super excited to do fireworks and his pyro dad showed him how to run around with smoke bombs.

Jackson joined in the action, but preferred glow sticks and cuddling with me, where he feel asleep.

Sam and all the neighbor girls. Too bad there aren't any boys his age on our street.