Happy 4th!

We had a great 4th of July weekend. The boys and I met Greg in New Mexico on Friday to head back home after a good week in Texas. Saturday night we went to Civic Center Park in Denver to watch the Colorado Symphony and a fireworks show. The boys had a great time. Ryan really enjoyed the music - he danced and clapped the whole time. Luke enjoyed listening to the music while he played his Leapster. The fireworks show was great - it started with the last 2 songs and then continued afterwards. Watching fireworks with your children takes the whole experience to a new level. This will be a fun thing for us to do every year when we're in town. On Sunday, we went swimming at our neighborhood pool for the annual 4th of July pool party. The weather was nice in the early afternoon and the boys had a great time - it was the first time that Greg has been able to join us at the pool this summer and they had a great time swimming with him. Sunday night we headed over to Greg's parent's house for a family cookout. The highlight of the day for the boys were the "fireworks" that Greg bought to set off at our house. The boys really enjoyed watching Greg set off Roman Candles and other mild fireworks in our backyard. Today we went back to the pool and hung around the house.

Beautiful view of the State Capital right before the concert started - we feared that we might be rained out, but the rainbow appeared instead.

Below - Ryan dancing.



Isn't he one of the most handsome little boys ever?


While the concert was going on above (complete with a light show on the City and County Building), Luke played Wall-E on his Leapster (which is a pretty cool video game thing that they don't play with at home).



Greg had a blast with the fireworks.

The boys are still loving their playset. Here they are this morning in their PJs swinging (which they would do all day every day if we were willing to push them).



Dad created a project for himself while he was here. He wanted to restain the playset so his 4 grandchildren could play on it this summer (Jacob and Olivia will be here in a couple of weeks). It looks really great and almost brand new.


New sayings from the boys:

Luke has started to say things like, "I have something shocking to tell you" and "I have some so sad news" when he starts to tell us a story.

Ryan likes to say "I's just kidding" when he says something silly. He loves to try to tell a joke.

They fight for the right to talk. We've tried to teach them not interrupt when someone is talking - so we get alot of "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me" (said quite loudly) when one of them is talking and the other wants to talk.

Not much else it going on this week. We'll have our first week of summer with no plans or travel - I'm looking forward to getting some things done around the house (like cleaning out the boys' closet and painting the hallway) and spending time playing with them.