weekend rundown

hey everyone!  hope you had a spectacular 4th of july weekend!  it was such a beautiful weekend and we had a lot of fun.  on the 4th, we began our day at the annual north canton parade where hudson and greyson loved seeing the tractors, fire trucks, and especially dancing to the music!  we are ALL about music and they'll groove to any beat they hear, whether it's actually music or just the beeping on a microwave...seriously, it's hilarious!  

anyway, from there we relaxed and played in the outside and then headed off to a big cookout on a farm in marlboro.  it was awesome!  it was so nice talking to all the people and the kids had a blast looking at the farm animals, playing on the big swing-set, and even going on a canoe ride on the pond.  

we headed home and then, while flocks of people left their homes and crowded the streets to go see the north canton fireworks, we simply walked outside onto our deck and had a perfect view of them there. it was the best!  the funny part was that hudson had his hands over his ears for the longest time until he realized they weren't that loud after all.  greyson slept right through them (thank goodness)! 

   

the next morning we went to church and then headed down to atwood lake for an overnight camping trip with mimi and papa.  some of you may be surprised to hear that we went camping, but when you hear that they have a very nice, permanent-lot trailor with a living room, full kitchen and bath, a master suite, and a bunkhouse, you'll understand! ;-)  we ate ice cream, had a campfire, roasted marshmallows and made smores.  the boys slept wonderfully and then the next day we spent the day boating on the lake and swimming at boater's beach.  it is a natural sandy beach area in the middle of the lake.  it was perfect!  the kids played there for hours and absolutely loved the water!  they're almost too confident in the water, but i guess that's better than being scared of it, right!?! 

needless to say, we had a wonderful weekend and of course we can't finish this blog post without a slideshow of 5 million pictures to prove it, right!?!  come on, you know you were thinking it!  well, we aim to please, so CLICK HERE see some of our weekend photographs!