4th of July

One of our fireworks!

We had a spectacular 4th of July weekend!! We initially decided to go boating and then decided to instead go to Bozeman, MT and stay overnight. We went to see the Dinosaur Museum at the University and played at the indoor pool of the hotel (we had it all to ourselves!!). On the 4th we had some friends over for some really cool fireworks. It was a perfect night -- it wasn't too hot and was actually a bit cool. We even got to see the city's fireworks from our deck! Yesterday, we went to the actual "Great Falls" of Great Falls, Montana! It was the first time we'd been there since we've lived here. I couldn't believe we hadn't gone before -- it was AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL. You cross a bridge to a little island that is directly in front of the falls and there is a beautiful park there where you can picnic or throw frisbee or whatever! As you can see, Ben is getting bigger and bigger every day, it seems. He's added "tick tock" to his vocabulary - we sing it ("Tick Tock, Tick Tock, I'm a little cuckoo clock......", just in case some of you didn't know!)every week at the library and of course he hears it a million times at home too! He says no, but not in a defiant way........yet. He's a funny, warmhearted little man that we love so much.