4th of July festivities

Our 4th of July festivities were strung out over a whole week. To start, we had our neighborhood party which was lots of fun. Our neighbors across the street kind of organize it so the food was set up over there and the kids were playing in the street or in the little kiddie pool. It was fun to see everyone come out and have fun together.

All of our neighbors had a ton of outside toys so our kids are in heaven.

This picture is for you Paul. The shrimp was tasty but kind of creepy to have it looking at you as you tear its head and legs off.

This is the dune racer. Denzil and Lauren look so cute!

They put on quite the firework show. Denzil covered his ears but enjoyed them. McKinley liked them a little but was so super tired I put her to bed before they were over. 

Southport, NC is THE place for the NC 4th of July Festival. It is a short drive from here so we went to see the parade. It was super hot but we had fun. Denzil liked the fire engines, ambulances, and the little blue race cars. After the parade we wandered around the booths then decided it was nap time and we were done being sweaty.

 Last night we did s'mores and had little fireworks with our neighbors next door. They just might be ready for us to move at the end of our year stay here because Denzil wants to play with them every day. He gets along really well with the 2 girls.