July 4th!

{July 4th}

We had another great 4th of July!

This is probably my favorite day of the year and we've established such a fun tradition of staying home and celebrating with our neighbors over the last several years.

We spent the afternoon at the Blackstone pool with friends and then had everyone over at our house again for a potluck and fireworks.

Of course it POURED rain for several hours all afternoon long (because it only rains in Denver on Memorial Day and 4th of July....) and besides cooling the temp down a little too much, it ended up working out in our favor.

We had gone in with the neighbors for a big fireworks show again and because of all the rain and the fact that the ground was soaked for miles in each direction, we weren't nervous to set them off. 

In fact, the entire city of Aurora and all surrounding neighborhoods felt the same way because big fireworks were going off like crazy everywhere we looked!!  

(which is normally unusual for Denver).

Its like people were tired from COVID and being pent up and went nuts with the fireworks :)

The sweetest little friends!

Papa made sure to pass around the Fireball

Water balloons

July Updates

In between our trips, the rest of July was basically spent living our best lives at the pool!  It was one of Denver's hottest summers that we can remember and I loved it.

We hung out at Blackstone's pool for most of the summer since we couldn't get into our neighborhood one more than once a week.

killing time at the park

Boys enjoying the random rain storm that blew through