4th of July - Greenville, SC

We celebrated independence Day in Greenville, SC this year with Uncle Lee, Aunt Taffy, and Kalee. They moved here last summer form Houston for Lee's job. This was our first time to visit and absolutely loved it! Their house and neighborhood is so cute with all back driveways and cute courtyards for yards, pool, green space, a huge pond, etc. All over the country it poured down rain for the 4th and we got it too in SC but despite the yucky weather all weekend we still managed to do everything we had set out to do. I fell in love with downtown Greenville. We went to the Farmers Market, hiked around Falls Park in Downtown, went to a minor league baseball game, ate and played. It was a really good trip but I am ready to be home for a while. We have literally been gone since the first weekend of June.

The boys went firework shopping with Daddy and Uncle Lee

Will fell in love with Daisy. He just followed her around. I'm so thankful he is getting over his fear of animals.

First time setting off fireworks on our own. Will did not like the noise and Gaines was all too comfortable with it. They both liked the sparklers.

Kicking off the festivities with some poppers. Will figured it real quick! Take Cover!!!

Love this pic of Kalee and Lee - such daredevils!

The rain is back

First Sparkler ever.

Tanks

Will did not like the loud ones at all.

Feeding turtles at the pond looking for the Great Turtle that legends talks about but did not see it!

Gaines rode the golf cart immediately. We finally got Will on with Garrick.

Napping - this is Garrick's mickey from his childhood.

Ridiculous...

We got one pic at the Falls before the storm rolled in.

And the rain came down again

At the Greenville Drives baseball game

Falls Park in downtown Greenville and the Farmers Market

We walked and walked and walked and after we left the park Will decided to cool off in a fountain.

Love this pic of the boys.

they did not take naps on Saturday despite our efforts! At one point we looked in and they laid with their arms around each other. Didn't last long but it happened!

Our drive home took 7.5 hours instead of 6 because of wrecks, traffic, and weather. MISERABLE!