Fun 4th!

Hope you all had a great 4th! We had a pretty good low-key weekend. We got up Saturday morning to do family pictures & Sophia wanted absolutely nothing to do with it! She whined & cried the entire time and only wanted mommy to hold her. When she would finally let me leave her, she wouldn't look near the camera & just wanted to play with the grass/leaves. I really really really wanted a good family picture, but that was not happening. She cried and buried her head in my shoulder & I was so sweaty and anxious/embarrassed/stressed that I think we only took like 1 picture and I'm sure it's a hot mess. She is NEVER like that. I mean, ever. She's cutting teeth so I guess that had something to do with it. I'm secretly (or perhaps not so secretly)hoping the photographer takes pity on us & lets us have a redo. ; )

After the picture fiasco, we went home for a nap and then took our big Wal.Mart trip. We are trying to go with a list & a plan more often...we find ourselves at the mart a little too often so we are trying to minimize our trips there. I've always used coupons to save a few dollars here & there, but I think I might try to get a little more bang for my buck and take the coupon thing a little more seriously. If you've got tips, I'd love to have them!

On Sunday, Jeff went to play golf with his parents while Sophia & I headed over to my sister's house to do an impromptu maternity shoot. I'm no pro, more like a mom-tographer, but I think she got what she wanted. Just some memories of being pregnant. Baby Karsyn should be making her appearance any day now! My older sister is also pregnant, so we will be having lots of little ones running around..fun times!




Jeff & I decided to be spontaneous and head to an afternoon movie (thankful his parents wanted to watch Sophia for us.) (We have so many people who love Sophia & want to babysit her, so we still get to go and do some stuff for just us. So thankful!) We went to see Transformers 3....it was pretty good. Long, but good.

For the 4th we hung around the house while Jeff grilled. We had grilled chicken, sausage, shells-n-cheese, garlic bread & s'more pie. It was heavenly! Sophia even got to have some s'more pie and she was a fan! After her nap, Sophia & I ran some errands showed off her cuteness for a bit. Luckily it wore her out so she took an extra nap, which worked out perfectly for going down to the river for the firework show. I was a little nervous about how she would react to the noise, but she LOVED it! She loves people watching & dancing, which she got to do plenty of both while we were there. She watched the fireworks for awhile, then decided to go from one person to the next to see if she could find someone who wouldn't make her keep looking up at the sky. haha! Her favorite thing was the glow-bracelet a sweet little girl sitting near us came over and gave to her. It was so sweet seeing the generosity of this little girl. It made Sophia's night! I hope Sophia grows up to have a sweet & giving heart like this little girl did. We got home around 10:45 and little miss was worn out! She was so good! I hope she still likes the fireworks next year!






<~My favorite fireworks = )