Life, Liberty & Happiness

We had a busy 4th of July weekend~we worked on lots of projects around the house but took some time to celebrate the holiday as well. On the 4th, we went to the Bentonville fireworks display at Orchards Park. We even got Mason to take an hour nap before we went! (a rare act!) He fell for it because we let him lay down under the baby's crib...he was out within 15 mins!

Sidenote: Wayne has the nursery painted & all the furniture moved in now, so I can work on decorating!

We let Mason do some fireworks at our house on the 3rd & 4th--just sparklers, snakes & other small, not-as-dangerous ones!

Posing for Mommy

The Nap:
Mason & Daddy waiting for it to get dark outside

Mason & Mommy (not looking my best here!)

The fireworks...I didn't get too many good shots this year :(


I love these 2 pictures of them watching the fireworks!


A little fun with sparklers when we got home~Mason was up super late that night!
Hope everyone had a great holiday! This weekend will be another busy one~it's Mason's 4th birthday!!!

4th of July

We had a pretty laid back 4th. I didn't mind too much that it rained most of the day because it was a good excuse to sit around, play with Mason and watch Michael Jackson's "Moonwalker" (straight outta the 80's-on VHS of course) not to mention I was able to finish a new painting. Please go check it out at Fiddlesticks.

Wayne grilled hamburgers & hot dogs for dinner (I like mine really well done! Yum!) Then we packed some drinks, sprayed ourselves head-to-toe with bug spray & headed to Memorial Park early enough to get a good spot for fireworks.

Ready to go...



We had talked it up with Mason all day and he was excited to see them (since I guess he didn't remember them from last year.) Besides having some really annoying people park RIGHT beside us in an almost empty lot and set up their chairs almost touching ours....well, they pretty much sucked. The whole show lasted about 15 minutes and Mason wasn't interested. He wanted to run around and scream, although he'd had a TWO and A HALF HOUR nap early in the day! Oh well, I bet he likes them more next year. And we still had fun.



My blue-eyed boy





Our little Dr Pepper Gnome