July 4th Weekend

We actually celebrated Independence Day a day early so that we could celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary on Friday. Garner, the town where my parents live, holds an event on the 3rd so we went to that with Nana, Papa, the Cardenases (Jonathan, Becki, Cooper and Gabe), and the Pittmans. We just set out some blankets and chairs and enjoyed a picnic dinner (I found out that I love Bojangles' biscuits). After we ate, we got to watch Cooper and Tyler run and dance around with each other. They have so much fun together and little Gabe will be joining in the big boy fun soon. He is trying so hard to walk and I'm sure it won't be long now! Nathan loves being outside, just like his big bro, so he was perfectly happy. We didn't stay for the fireworks because we had to get Tyler and Nathan to bed, but it was fun just to hang out with family for a while.

Our 6th wedding anniversary was also last weekend, July 6th. We decided we'd celebrate it on Friday, the 4th, so that Tyler could spend the night at Nana and Papa's house. Tyler wanted PJ to go with him, so we only had Nathan that night. We didn't want to do much because we still had Nathan with us, so we got take-out from Red Lobster (it had been at least 4 years since we'd eaten there) and ate it at home. We had both forgotten how good Red Lobster's Cheddar Bay biscuits taste. We even rented a movie ("27 Dresses"--a total chick flick), which is a rarity for us. It was so nice to be able to just relax together like we used to!