Happy 4th of July!

Each year, we head to Wells Branch's FourthFest for the Fourth of July celebration there, and this year was no exception! Though Jack attended last year in my belly, this year he enjoyed it much more, being on the outside and all. This is always one of the highlights of our summer! 

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Happy Independence Day!

FourthFest 2013!

For the past two years, we've celebrated the 4th of July holiday by heading up to Wells Branch to attend their annual patriotic celebration, FourthFest! This year was no change, since we always have such a blast, and we had an even better than normal time because the party was in high gear for their 20th anniversary!

As always, they offered up their awesome pool to guests (including a dive and splash competition that Ava is determined to participate in when she gets older), had great carnival games with prizes hosted by the Girl Scouts (an organization I love dearly from my youth and can't wait until Ava is old enough to participate!), lots of great food, a photo booth, face painting, balloon animals, and more!

Here's just a bit of the fun that we had:

Who knew that Ava was such a natural at horseshoes?!

Close, but not quiet with the bean bags!

How mommy preferred to use the pool - that water was cold!

How Ava and David preferred to use it:

Our annual train ride, this year with daddy for fear mama would be sick :(

Ava's patriotic face paint!

Fourth of July Follow-Up.

I may be a week behind here, but better late than never? Anyhow, we spent the Fourth of July this year at Wells Branch Fourth Fest, the same place we spent the Fourth last year! Again, it delivered! They had a parade (which we missed, for fear of overheating too early!), followed by games and swimming at the pool, train rides, concessions and kid's activities, such as face painting, photo booths and balloon animals. In short, it was the perfect (family-friendly) 4th!