Happy 4th!

Our family had a great day yesterday.  The fun - at least for Jack and I - started Tuesday evening with an adult-only (for our group) James Taylor concert.  Sitting outside once a year with my husband and other friends and eating swanky food on a beautiful night while "James Taylor sings to us" (which sounds much swankier than "listening to James Taylor") is good for the soul and we enjoyed it very much.

On Wednesday morning, we all headed out to the parade in town. 

 My Annie girl likes to dress for the occasion.  And she likes to dress any of her other siblings who will let her dress them - that's usually only Lauren.  I have resisted the urge every year to buy a red, white, and blue sundress for the girls for the parade.  The girls have plenty of clothes, they don't need another sundress, right?  Always resourceful, Annie just rummaged around in the girls' dresser and dressed both herself and her sister in perfectly appropriate July 4th attire.  Yay Annie!

 Waiting to dash for candy

 Aidan was very interested in all there was to see.

 One of Jakin's favorite parts of being in the school band is that he can march in the parades!

Aidan somehow ended up with a lollipop.

 He can even walk with the lollipop!

 This fruit tart was our dessert after dinner.  Then, we went to see some fireworks on the evening of the 4th but those pictures are on Jack's phone, so they will have to be the subject of another post.

And this is just a sweet picture from today.  Aidan is such a smiley happy boy!