Our 4th of July

Our little men before church on Sunday. They sure are cuties!

Our 4th of July was a wonderful one. All weekend we celebrated and played, however, on the actual holiday we mostly just enjoyed having Poppy home and kept things low-key while our little men caught up on sleep. It was wonderful!

Firework cupcakes!

Char only likes the frosting

McCabe looking dapper. I like the picture on the left because his arm makes him actually look plump. Sigh.... I can't wait till he stops spitting up the majority of his calories so that he can round out.

Our men on the hike

In the evening, headed to the hills in Green Canyon and enjoyed a little family hike. Once we got going, we realized that the whole trail was swarming with mosquitoes! After swatting couple off of James' back, I explained to Mason that if you see a mosquito land, slap it off. A couple minutes down the trail, he spotted one on McCabe's forehead and yelled, "MOSQUITO!!!!!" and before we could react in anyway, he ran full speed  to the aid of his youngest brother and smacked him full in the face. While we were all recovering from shock (including McCabe) Mason proudly said, "I Got 'em!" Yikes.... McCabe is a tough cookie because Mason is all muscle and it must have hurt like crazy! Shortly after, we decided to cut our hike short and race back to our truck for safety.

Me and my littlest friend

Fireworks!!!!

Last night we kicked off the 4th of July weekend with a couple fireworks on our driveway:

 (which are amazingly enough, just as piddly looking in this picture as they were in real life. D'oh!

 Then we strolled off to James' office/lab down the street...

The boys in our stroller that I just recovered. NOT fun.

...where we partied-hard. 

As if just being able to play at Pop's lab wasn't enough, we got to watch the firework show put on by Logan at USU's Stadium of Fire! Hot dog!!!!

 Even Baby Cabe thought they were nifty:

(...But couldn't help wondering why he had to stay in the stroller when he wanted to be out munching on grass instead).

The show was so exciting that Char jumped right out of his pants!

Needless to say, I was jealous. :) Thank goodness that we had the lawn to ourselves....otherwise we would of had to at least pretend to parent.

Now, THAT is freedom!

I don't know what part of the night I enjoyed the most; watching my men have so much fun or getting to jog past the endless line of slow moving cars as we headed on home. Such a happy night.