What a beautiful day it was in Birmingham, Al on this July 4th! There was a long day planned for our family, so we wanted to make sure the kids were well rested the night before! We woke up early to go to church at 8:30am. I wanted to be at the pool when it opened because I knew it would be very crowded. Recently, we joined a Country Club named "Pine Tree”. We absolutely love it there! The club is very young and full of young families with little ones! Many of our friends are members there too, which makes it very nice. We have quickly replaced our neighborhood pool with PineTree!
Well, every holiday Pine Tree makes a big showing with Watersides and games for the kids, a fabulous
barbecue, bar at the pool and pool games for the little ones! I knew it would be packed, so I wanted to get there early for the fun. I also wanted Henley to be able to have fun before her nap time rolled around! We met a bunch of our friends and their kids up there and we all had a blast! The Copeland’s brought their crew and Christian was so happy to play with Elijah and Preston! I think Preston and Christian were in the water slide line from the get go! I think Christian was hesitant at first, but once he went down, he was hooked! They played games and participated in races and won prizes (candy)! Christian and Henley were having a blast! We had lunch and it was delicious! All kids under 5 eat for free, so it really is a great deal for our family! I think we headed home around 2:00 so Henley could take a nap and be rested for the night time activities! Brian headed back up to the club to play some golf and Christian fell asleep on the couch! I was ecstatic because he was going to need his rest...it would be a late night!
Once everyone was awake and ready we headed over to our friends the Copeland’s house for dinner and drinks. There were 5 couples there and everybody chipped in and brought something to eat/drink! There were babies, toddlers and kids of all ages! I think they had a blast and were expending a lot of energy because when the food was served, they sat and scarfed it all down! Ethan made slider hamburgers and hot dogs. There was potato salad, chips, stuffed peppers (phenomenal) and lots of desserts! It was very, very good! The kids played hard, running around and Brian even had Elijah and Christian wrestling out in the back yard! I think Brian is living for the day that Christian will wrestle...even though moms not so much! However, he seems to be in to it a lot and I am pretty sure we might have a wrestler on our hands?
Once the sun started to go down we headed back home to our house for the firework show to be set up! Brian has put on a great fireworks display the past 4 years at our house! He also tries to make it bigger and better every year! I am surprised nobody has caught on fire from this craziness! Our house is the perfect place to do a firework show because our house sits so high on a hill! They shoot the fireworks down in the street and we have the perfect place to view them from our front yard! I am waiting to get a big fat fine in the mail for violating some kind of code in our neighborhood! Luckily, we have gotten away with it every year!!! We had blankets out in the front for the kids and chairs for adults! It was an amazing show! I think everyone contributed to the firework show this year, so it was crazy big and lasted for a good thirty minutes! Enjoy all the pictures!
Thanks to everybody who made this such a fun day for us and the kids!
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