4th Festivities!

Happy Birthday America! What a great Country we live in...we are so fortunate! This weekend, we headed to Dallas Friday night to hang with my parents for dinner. Saturday, we Met the Grimes' for Lunch, while we secretly hoped Tatum would decide she was ready to join us. :) After lunch we headed downtown Dallas to a wedding of a friend of Lance's from childhood. We had a great time. I LOVE weddings. It always takes me back to mine and Lance's wedding day which was the greatest day of my life. I would do it all over again in a second! Lance's Parents went to the wedding as well, so we headed back to their house after the wedding. Sunday Morning we took family portraits, laid by the pool, and cooked out. Lance and I had to head back to Tyler/Longview area early due to him having to be in a certain proximity to the work place just in case one of his rigs needed something from him. So, we headed to Tyler and had dinner and watched a fire works show with a few couples from our community group at church. They are a really great bunch!! Whew, what an eventful weekend! Monday, Lance and I were the laziest bums! We had such a great time with each of you! We love each of you SOOO much. :) Here are some pics from our fun filled time...

On our quick/busy trip home for a couple days, we had a quick lunch with the Mel, Jon and Cade. This is the last picture without Tatum! We love her already! She will be here in a matter of days.

Roy, Ryan and Lance. These are a couple guys Lance grew up with since he was a wee little one. This was at Ryan's wedding. Congrats Ryan and Pricilla!

Lance and Haley Playing in the pool.

Mayer, pretending he loves to swim because we want him to love it. Hehe! But, he is swimming to the steps so he can get out.

Ha! Love this picture! When we were taking family photos I got to snap this quick shot! These two are amazing. I'm so fortunate to have such great In-Laws!

Some of our community group girls. I love them!

Some of the boys from our Community group. Lance really enjoys these guys!

Mayer's first fireworks show. I was kinda nervous, because usually they scare little guys like him, but I'm not even sure he knew there was a fireworks show going on. They didn't phase him a bit. :)

Visiting The Gilmore's

2 weeks ago yesterday, Lance and I hopped a plane to Pennsylvania to visit our dear friends Jeff and Dana Gilmore. We had so much fun with these two as well as there PRECIOUS little girls, Logan and Landry. Landry was born this past March, so this was our first time meeting her since her arrival. Truly, the best baby one could ask for! We love these little girls like crazy! During our visit, Pennsylvania had amazing weather mainly in the mid 80's during the day, and low 70's at night with a cool breeze. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time outdoors, which I love!! We cooked out a lot, played games, shopped, and toured the town. We enjoyed our stay so much. It always goes by way too fast!

This walk was more intense than it looks here. There are some pretty steep inclines!

Logan, swinging at the Park!

Lance and Jack...we LOVE Jack!

Precious Landry!

Best Buds!

Jack, lounging out on the steps, Ha!

This Pic cracks me up! Logan hates the sight of anything dirty. Her whole body shakes when she sees a bug or something gross, but this morning, she decided she wanted to eat dirt out of the flower bed. Ha!!! She is so cute!

Lance helping Logan put her shoes on, love it!

Lance's first time to feed and Burp Landry. He learned a lot on this trip! :)

Ha!

I really love this picture. We stopped at the Pittsburgh Pirates Stadium and walked around a bit. Baseball will always be in their blood. Can't you just see this picture when they were 6 years old? Love it!