July is off with a bang!

Montessori was closed July 1st-3rd for the Fourth of July Holiday (they always close an extra day or two to do repairs) so Arden went to stay with Gigi and Pops for a few days! Stratton got some much needed one on one time with us. I picked him up early on Thursday and Jarrod actually got home at regular time as well so we took him to the movie! He begged to See Jurassic World. And I was a little hesitant, since I was afraid he would be scared and it’s PG-13 so who knows what they might say or do! Well, it wasn’t too bad. The movie was actually way better than I had anticipated, I really enjoyed it. Stratton did get a little scared, but he was ok with it. He even slept all night that night! I figured he would have nightmares! The summer program Stratton attends went all week and on Friday the 3rd he really wanted to go because they were taking them on a field trip to play putt putt! It does crack me up that the family that owns the putt putt place are some of our best friends and we still never go! So, Jarrod and I didn’t have to work on Friday but Stratton still wanted to go to Excel?? Oh well. We had an really great morning. No kids around! We watched TV on the couch for a little while – which is the rarest occurrence ever these days! I couldn’t even tell you the last time we sat on the couch and watched a movie we wanted to! Friday night we went to eat at Skinny J’s and ran to the store to get some groceries. We got home and I made some desserts for Saturday and got our stuff all packed up for the rest of the weekend.

Big boy seeing his first grown up movie!

Saturday morning we got up and headed to Hickory Ridge to Gigi and Pops house. We had lunch with the whole family and the kids and I (of course me- why am I the parent that always has to get wet?!) played in the pool. Then we went in and took a nap-ahhhh!!! Before dinner and FIREWORKS!!

 

Getting ready to shoot fireworks!

Grandpa and Doug and Kay came back over for the show!

Jarrod shot most of the fireworks, and they were really good. Only one kinda fell over and shot out instead of up. Jarrod got out of the way in a HUR-RAY. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him move so fast! Arden and Gigi stayed in the house during the shooting. Arden said it was too loud. So they watched it from a window inside. Without the heat, and mosquitos. Afterwards we all got showered and called it a night! We stayed down there and went to church on Sunday and had lunch with Gigi and Pops.