It's Independence Day!

July 1st was George's first official day as an Attending! He was scheduled to work the night shift of the 4th up in Culpeper, a small city about a hour north of us, so we decided to watch the fireworks in Culpeper so we could all be together.

Walking to the park:

It was a cute little park with food trucks and a pretty fountain. After being at Ida Lee in Leesburg for the past couple years, it was nice to be somewhere a little less crowded.

We grabbed some dinner and waited for the fireworks to start.

George told the kids the history of the 4th of July and why it's important. Cole wasn't too interested, but Jude thought it was pretty neat.

Silly Jude.

Smile, Lily! Nice.

Watching a balloon fly away.

The kids had a fun time running around the field. Jude thought it was great fun to run up and shove Cole and Lily down. I wasn't convinced it was such a great game, but the kids didn't seem to mind.

It's about to start!

Loving on Daddy. So glad he was able to be there with us.

This looks familiar...

Flashback: Jude is about 5 months old. :)

Love it!

Fireworks!

After the fireworks ended, we walked back to our car and said good-bye to George who went straight to work to care for all the people who would party a little too hard that night. The kiddos and I went home to bed.

Lance spent the holiday with his Dad, Abbey and some other family members that came into town. They were blessing Madison that weekend, so Bob and Kari flew out while Scott's brother Pete drove up from Norfolk with his cute, very pregnant wife Jessica and their two boys Parker and Austin.

They had their own fireworks at home.

I stole a couple pictures from Jessica's facebook feed of their time that weekend. They went to Sakura, the local Hibachi grill...

...and had snuggle time with the newest cousin. 

Jessica gave birth to her third son a little over a week later!

Happy 4th of July!