Fourth of July and Other Happenings

Trying to take full advantage of any events going on in Charleston, we decided to take the kids to the Fourth of July parade.  The afternoon was smokin' hot but it was still fun to get out.  You will see that none of the pictures we took involve a parade...yeah the parade route went right along the playground so ultimately the jungle gym, swings, and slide won out over the parade.

What is a hot summers day without a slushy?!  This picture was taken about 5 seconds before Bryce decided he wanted to partake in this lovely summer time activity and grabbed the straw from Brielle who then in a typical sisterly fashion abruptly retaliated by forcefully taking it back all the while dumping the entire slushy all over herself and all over the Burley.  Ahhhh...gotta love that summer time activity! :)

Brielle showing off her face painted star.  I don't know why but I think any kid looks doubly cute when they have something painted on their face.

And we are so late in posting but this little guy turned one year old on the 15th of June (yeah...almost a month late)  I will designate a post to this sweet little thing but for now he just get a picture.

In other action, we have been trying to stay wet as much as possible around here.  Like the rest of the country it has been stinkin' hot around here so we've been spending a lot of time at the community pool in town (which rocks this world!) as well as busting our own water activities at the house.   

Brielle and I also did a mommy/daughter date last weekend where we went to a show called "Bubble Time" at EIU's fine arts center.  It was a really cute show with tons and tons of bubbles and Brielle really liked it.  The only setback was that I did not come prepared with a snack...which Brielle reminded me of many, many, many times throughout the show.  :)

And these two pictures just crack me up because it shows the sibling relationship at its finest.

Here we hae Bryce finding great joy over the possibility of running his sister over with the Cozy Coupe...

...and here is the little brother loving the fact that his sister so willingly (or maybe not so willingly) allowed him to join her in the Cozy Coupe.  I just love the difference in expressions...Bryce just happy as a lark...Brielle not so much.