Fourth of July weekend festivities

I have been anticipating this holiday since I knew my due date with Zoie! It's her first holiday!!!!! In all festiveness, I went out and got myself, Brandon, Zeke, and Zoie enough American themed outfits and accessories for every day of the holiday weekend.

We spent our holiday weekend at my parents, who live in a gated community with a lake, their pool, and a fireworks extravaganza over the lake.

We invited friends over, they invited friends over and we all had ourselves and fabulous time all 3 days!

Sunday was Brandon's birthday so we celebrated Sunday for him. We celebrate birthday weeks and months in our family so he has a lot more coming his way, at least this week, since two of his presents were a little on the late side and we are having people over for a firework show in our backyard this coming Saturday......

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