We had a fantastic time celebrating Mayzie's first 4th of July! Our celebrating actually started a week early at our church's Patriotic Picnic. Jill and I decided to make Mayzie and E
mory matching dre
sses...which was SUPER simple by the way. Here's the tutorial we used if any of you are interested in trying to make pillowcase dresses: http://www.aroomsomewhere.net/2007/07/pillowcase-dress-tutorial.html. Anyways...Jill found a wagon and the girls did SO well riding in the parade around our church parking lot! We had a ton of fun and plan on winning 1ST place in the decorating contest next year!!!
mory matching dre
sses...which was SUPER simple by the way. Here's the tutorial we used if any of you are interested in trying to make pillowcase dresses: http://www.aroomsomewhere.net/2007/07/pillowcase-dress-tutorial.html. Anyways...Jill found a wagon and the girls did SO well riding in the parade around our church parking lot! We had a ton of fun and plan on winning 1ST place in the decorating contest next year!!! Hendersonville always has a pretty great show the 3rd of July and our YaM's class gets together at the high school to w
atch the fireworks. We had a GREAT group this year show up and Amy made 4 yes FOUR quarts of homemade ice cream for everyone!! I got a fantastic grou
p shot of all the kids that came (something I've been wanting to do for a WHILE). Mayzie was a little afraid of the fireworks at first but then was fascinated! She sat with Owen and just watched in awe! I was so proud of her...considering that I was DEATHLY afraid of them when I was little!!!
atch the fireworks. We had a GREAT group this year show up and Amy made 4 yes FOUR quarts of homemade ice cream for everyone!! I got a fantastic grou
p shot of all the kids that came (something I've been wanting to do for a WHILE). Mayzie was a little afraid of the fireworks at first but then was fascinated! She sat with Owen and just watched in awe! I was so proud of her...considering that I was DEATHLY afraid of them when I was little!!!
My parents' pool is FINALLY finished and we are SO excited!!! On the Fourth we had family over and had a great time swi
mming!! Mayzie is a fish and just loves being in the water. She also really loved watching Aunt Kate and cousin Jordan break in the diving board. Later that evening we had our little family fireworks show and Mayzie did pretty well with those too! There was one whistling one that scared her but who likes those anyway, right?? Holidays are SO much more fun when you get to share them with yo
ur kiddos!!!
mming!! Mayzie is a fish and just loves being in the water. She also really loved watching Aunt Kate and cousin Jordan break in the diving board. Later that evening we had our little family fireworks show and Mayzie did pretty well with those too! There was one whistling one that scared her but who likes those anyway, right?? Holidays are SO much more fun when you get to share them with yo
ur kiddos!!! 
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