CEC with grandparents and last 4th celebration...

Dancing with ChuckE

Jan and Ken left Monday morning (after watching the girls while I ran to the eye doctor).  My parents came back over Monday afternoon.  Tuesday we had to hang around the house waiting on a couple home things to get done.  Then we were all a bit stir crazy so we headed to CEC...Ryne's choice!  We bought tokens and let Ryne have fun!  It wasn't very crowded and that is always nice.  After playing we went to Hobby Lobby and then to Charlie's Chicken for dinner.

She carried her bag that she colored the whole time...pretty proud!

Doing a little posing at Hobby Lobby!

The next day was the 4th.  My parents headed home that afternoon.  We took care of a few things and then went to dinner at On The Border before heading to the last fireworks of the year!  Ryne was pretty excited to get to see more fireworks!

I'm sure Reese was excited too!  :)

blue eyed twins!

We did alot of rock climbing while waiting for it to get dark!

Love my little momma's girl!

Love these 4th of July cuties!

Three shows in one year...that might be a record for us!

Cross Church fireworks...

Cross Church put on a huge fireworks show on Sunday.  They had baptisms before at like 6 and had live music the whole time.  There were tons of food vendors and some stuff for the kids to do.  We were super impressed with how well laid out everything was. We were also really impressed by the quality/length of the show.  They did a phenomenal job!  Pops and GranJan went with us and they enjoyed the show as well!

Getting ready to go...

All smiles!

 We had some time to kill once we got set up.  Ryne ran around alot and I had a hard time keeping Reese on the blanket!  Reese wants to be where her sissy is most of the time!

Sweet sisters!!!

getting closer!

It's time!

Ryne liked watching on the hill...

Some new buds came and sat by her as well...she is such a leader!  :)

Daddy joined her for a few as well...

The girls loved the show!

Happy 4th!

We went to eat at Mojitos after the party.  That was the first time for the grandparents and I think they approved!  On the way home we got to stop at a local highschool to watch some fireworks.  It was a fun evening!

Ryne wanted to sit on the sun visor...nice and cushy!  ha!

The next day we hung out around the house until it was time to go watch more fireworks!  On the way we stopped by Toys R Us so Ryne could get another stuffed snake...awesome!  Then we headed to eat at MAD Pizza before going to Cross Church Pinnacle for fireworks!

Watch out Brittany...there is another snake lover coming up!  ha!

Ryne got some fake teeth at dinner and loved tricking people!

The fireworks at CC were amazing!  They were, in my opinion, the best out of the three we saw in NWA!  I am so happy to belong (for another week at least!) to such an amazing church that reaches out to the community in so many ways.  I actually took the real camera that night so I will post those pictures later.

Reese's first ever birthday party!!

We had a great time celebrating Reese's birthday in a very low key way!  With us moving we decided to do a very small get together with family.  Here is a little glimpse of Reese's special day!

The decorations...

Since the party consisted of mainly adults...we had watermelons as party favors.  We also had goodie bags for the kids that consisted of bubbles, sidewalk chalk, watermelon air heads, watermelon sour patch kids, and a watermelon cup.  

The food table

Reese's super cute cake from Rick's.

Jeremy sneaking a nibble!

 The birthday girl and some guest...

Ryne and our sweet neighbor Olivia...

Reese and our sweet neighbor Lily!

Jimmy...such a cutie!

Sweet Cameron!

 The cake portion...

Reese didn't know what to think about everyone singing to her!

Big sis helping blow out candles!

Time to eat some cake!

J wiped some cake on her mouth!

She was just worried about getting away from the cake and to me!

You can't tell but she has a blueberry in her hand!  Beth put on  in the cake to so that she would eat it and it would at least look like she was eating her cake.  No go though...she was so weirded out by the cake that she didn't even want her favorite blue berries!

Straight in the tub!

 The presents...

Big sis close by to help open presents!

Poor girl was SO sleepy!

Silly sister thought she made a good present!

Ryne and Ava trying to open the big box!

Reese was over opening gifts about 5 minutes into it!  :)

We had such a good time visiting and celebrating our sweet little girl.  I still can't believe that she is one!  She is the sweetest little one year old and we absolutely adore her!