Celebratin' the 4th!

We love spending the 4th of July in Cincinnati because we always have such a great time. Lots of pool time, including more football catching sessions with Grandpa, various made up games,

baseball, which was a blast,

and searching for coins. Grandma had a young kid division and a teenager division. I wasn't too happy when she announced there wasn't going to be an adult division.

Always good food...

good friends (the Radcliff family joined us this year),

and fun family time!

And Bryan got home from his travels!! It was so great to see him! He couldn't believe that Xander has almost surpassed him in height.

He always comes bearing gifts which is so sweet of him.

We wore ourselves out with all the fun we had.

What a great blessing it is to live in this country and enjoy such amazing freedom!