July 4th

We had a great July 4th weekend. Wade and I left on Friday and headed to the lake with my mom. It was so hot all weekend but we had great weather. Josh got there on Friday night and we spent Saturday morning on the boat. Wade jumped off the boat for the first time and swam on Saturday and he LOVED it! He actually cried when we made him get back in. We headed to Josh's parents house around nap time on Saturday.  Matt, Kendal, and the kids came over and we all went swimming and then out to eat. We had so much fun with everyone! Dinner is always exciting when you have 4 kids all under the age of 4. They were all really good!!

On Sunday our family, my Aunt, Uncle, Cousin and her family all went to "Goat Island." I am not sure why it got this name; everyone says there used to be goats that lived there? Anyways it is this little island in the middle of the lake where everyone goes and beaches their boats and swims. We always take floats and lunch and spend a few hours there. Well Wade was so excited...he kept saying we were "going to the Island." Bless his heart he kept saying it like it was a tropical place! If you like to "people watch" this is the place to go. Everyone is REALLY country and they usually have had a few drinks and you can only imagine. Ashley and Zach got there on Sunday and on Sunday night we took the boat out to go watch fireworks. The water gets really rough because of all the boats so we stayed way back because it can be really scary. Wade loved the fireworks because we could see them but you really could not hear them. He said he liked the "quiet fireworks." We left late Monday night and Wade cried for about 10 minutes about not wanting to go to "Wade's house." He wanted to stay at the lake. It was so nice to spend the weekend with all our families and to have a three day weekend. It is always good when Josh is home on a Monday!!

I took these two from far away with our big lens and I just love these pictures. I especially love the one where he is sitting and putting rocks into his sand bucket.

This was Wade's first time jumping into the lake off the boat and swimming in the middle of the lake. He loved it!

Here he is playing at "Goat Island," he loved playing on the floats.

Wade wanted Ashley to "go swimming" with him.

This picture still makes me laugh. We were all sitting outside and I had just taken Wade's clothes off to get him dressed. Well he had this little American flag toy and started marching and running naked all over the yard with it. I think it made it better that he had on his sandals and nothing else. Of course everyone was laughing so hard and that kept him going even longer. Josh was so embarrased!!

Josh left yesterday (last week) morning for a President's meeting at work. They are in PA from Wed-Fri. I am so thankful he only travels twice a year and that it is only for a couple days at a time. We were so proud of him because this is his first President's meeting. Pretty soon he is going to be the President of the Raleigh branch. This is a big accomplishment!!! They have never had a president that was under 30 years old!