4th of July...was a little bit different this year

This past weekend 4th of July was a little bit different...it is definitely one of mommy's most favorite holidays...the parade, the family, the food  and the fireworks!  Well...we had the family and the food but no parade or fireworks for Dalton...mommy snuck out that night and saw some fireworks in the night sky!  Dalton told me that when he is bigger he will go to the parade...when the loud noise doesn't bother him...we have gone with him the past two years but last year was pretty loud and apparently he remembers it!  So we decided that we would have the family over for lunch when they got done with the parade and let the kids play and the adults talk and play too!  The weather was

RAINY RAINY RAINY so we weren't outside as much as we had hoped but other than that it was lots of fun!

"the cousins"  Dalton wanted NO part of the pictures...I think that was the only rage he had all day was people taking pictures of him!

apparently his oldest cousin didn't get that he didn't want to be in the picture...if you could only hear his rebellion...

We did start a new 4th of July tradition...planting a pumpkin/gourd garden!  After our landscape install earlier in the summer we have a large mound of dirt in the back of the yard so Dalton and mommy worked on prepping the dirt and planting all of our vines and seeds!  Mommy love love loves pumpkins and Dalton is very excited too and keeps telling me how much his pumpkin vine has grown.  Their is a 90 day waiting period for pumpkins, etc so we will see how long we both stay interested:) 

it's not pretty...we simply killed off some of the grass about a week ago and then on the 4th we turned over the soil and planted our vines and some additional seeds...big pumpkins, medium pumpkins, tiny pumpkins and assorted gourds...mommy simply can't wait to not spend a fortune at the pumpkin patch this year and be able to have her own in her backyard

the planting...

And these last pictures I took tonight...just a reminder of why we love our backyard...we get some of the best sunsets not to mention views of firework displays on the 4th of July!