Independence Day 2013

The morning of July 4th we went to The Woodlands 4th of July Parade.  It's the first time we've been.  Aside from being hot (in the sun, we couldn't find a shaded spot which was at least 20 degrees cooler) it was a fun time.  Laila enjoyed it, but even she too wanted to go home towards the end from being hot LOL. 

 Laila and Zoe are ready!

 Waving to the "bicycles" (motorcycles)

 Trying to get some shade with daddy

 July 4th night we did fireworks in our coldesac with all the neighbors.  I had initially put Laila to bed since she was pretty tired but then all the noise started and she wasn't sleeping.  Plus I felt kinda bad if she missed all the cool fireworks, so she stayed up with us. 

Daddy helped her do some sparklers, which she loved!

We could see The Woodlands fireworks show from our house!

 Watching fireworks with our happy girl (gotta have that "night night" though lol)

 Mesmerized!

 

 On another note, we re-arranged our house... again. We do this at least once a year it seems.  Usually its just been the living room.  But with all the new kids' rooms done now, I guess we thought, why not keep going.  We have a formal living room and a formal dining room, which in my opinion are a waste of space.  At least in our house they seem to be.  I have always said I wanted a craft area/room.  D.J.'s office was pretty enclosed and he didn't really like working in it.  So we moved it to the formal living room where he can see out of the front of the house (neighborhood watch) and it feels much more open.  I forgot to take a picture..

And we sold our formal dining room table and moved the couches and stuff from the formal living into there.  Looks like a nice little seating area.

D.J.'s old office is now my craft area and a place to put all the kids toys which were beginning to pile up in our living room.  Laila likes her new playroom too!

My craft hutch... just need a craft table

Toy area. Pinterest inspired wall art area.

I used my Cricut to cut self adhesive vinyl letters to make the "Masterpieces".