July 4th Celebrations!

We have been celebrating Independence Day since last Sunday, June 29th. Our church has an annual celebration called Amerifest. There is a great concert, fun stuff for kids, a car show and free food. Casey really enjoyed looking at the fire trucks and playing on the large bouncy slide. We found out that day that he is very scared of clowns. He was a bit clingy after a visit to get a balloon.









During the week we did some swimming at home in our new little pool. Casey really enjoyed going down the slide and splashing around. I had the pool filled with toys but he decided that they were not needed. Not enough space I guess.

We also spent a morning at the Wirth Park zero depth pool with some friends from church. Grandma Jill came along to help me chase Casey around the pool. He loved the slide, playing ring around the rosy and just splashing around. It was a beautiful day to take a dip!












On July 3rd we went to the Stanley's home for their annual party. They live about a block away from the Menomonee Falls parade and the fireworks are set off across the street from their backyard. It is the perfect place to enjoy some 4th of July fun. We didn't make it for the fireworks this year but we sure enjoyed the parade. Casey was glued to our sides after the firetruck honked it's horn a couple feet away from us! He didn't cry, but his entire body was shaking. His cousin Hannah enjoyed grabbing all of the candy she could. She was such a good girl and shared it with her prego Auntie Joy:)








The morning of the 4th Matt ran in his first official race called the Firecracker 4 in Hales Corners. He ran with a friend from work and a couple of guys from our Sunday school class. Matt did a great job seeing as though it was his first race. He finished in a little over 32 minutes which is about an 8 minute mile! Yeah honey! It was a bit early for Casey and I to go so my friend Gretchen took some pictures for me.



The day of the 4th we had our annual family get together at our house. It was a fun afternoon filled with great food, water fun for the kids, and ladder ball and badminton for the adults. We really enjoyed having everyone over and it was a beautiful day to be outside.