Happy 4th of July!

I hope you all had a great holiday this past weekend. We had a great weekend as well. It was nice to have Jason home from work on Friday. He took the boys on a bike ride Friday and then to play with friends in the river...well, creek right now since we haven't had much rain. Friday night we went to visit friends in Spring Hill to watch fireworks in their neighborhood. They really enjoyed their first fireworks experience! We wondered how they would handle the noise since they seem to not like anything loud except the radio. But they did real good and it was almost 10:30 when we got home to put them to bed. They were great! While we were at our friends house we played a little Guitar Hero, hopefully I can get those pictures posted on this blog because they are hilarious! Travis is in the brown shirt and Taylor is in the red.

Friday morning I was up before they were, sitting on the couch and was able to listen to their conversation on the way down the stairs. Here's how the adorable conversation went:

Long sign/yawn from someone as they're getting out of the bed.

Bedroom door opens, Travis says "You hear Rusty, Taylor?" (Rusty is out side barking at a friend walking by).

Taylor responds "Um, yes. You wanna go see him Travis?"

"Yes, let's go see him," Travis says.

"He's outside, Travis" says Taylor.

And now they see me sitting on the couch watching them come down the stairs and they stop talking and begin smiling these huge smiles at me. It's like they know they were caught by me in the middle of some conversation they didn't want me to hear. They talk like this to each other all the time. It really is adorable and I'm so fortunate to be a part of their lives!

On Saturday night we had our fish fry. We fried something like 35 pieces of catfish and made the best hushpuppies to go with it for 21 people in our backyard and just had a great time. Our friends made a homemade chocolate ice cream that tasted like the Wendy's frosty and Jason made his MtDew ice cream. It was all fabulous! We used Memaw and Papa's fish fry and hushpuppie recipe. It's a lot of work and has certainly given me a new appreciation for what Memaw and Papa do when they fry fish for everyone at their house. Jason pretty much stood over that boiling oil and I was his "runner" for the whole evening. It makes it hard to get to spend time with all the friends you invited over, but it was still fun. However, next time we "entertain" we'll tell people to pick up a bucket of chicken and come hang out in our yard. That way we may get to spend time with them!

An update on naps - the boys are doing much much better. I don't know what was going on, but they are back to normal nap time. It takes me sitting outside the door to make sure they don't pull their mattresses of their bed and go all WWF on me, but it works.