Independence Day...

Happy 4th of July everyone! The Dennison Family headed out to the Berkshire's yesterday to celebrate. It started out as a cool & cloudy day, but by the time we got out there it was all sunny skies and gorgeous! I finally got some color, what a concept!

We went to my Uncle Bob & Aunt Joan's house in Pittsfield and had a wonderful day hanging out by the pool, eating all of Aunt Joan's food and seeing lots of cousins. We hadn't been there since last August (which is pathetic I know, it's a 2 1/2 hour drive for goodness sakes) and hadn't seen some of the cousins in that long.

Audrey had a blast running around, ok crawling around I guess, trying to keep up with everyone. She enjoyed everything except the pool which I will write about in a separate post. Those pictures are priceless... That's not totally true, she enjoyed standing on the edge of the pool and laughing and clapping at all her cousins. Getting in was the issue as you will see...

Here she is with Aunt Joan. She warmed up to everyone very quickly which was great. We had an awesome time and look forward to seeing everyone again soon!

Braintree 4th of July...

Our town has their 4th of July celebration the Saturday before the actual 4th, which was today this year. We had no idea when we moved into our neighborhood 3 years ago, but it is the center of all of the festivities which is pretty cool. You can see the fireworks from our deck and pretty much anywhere else in the neighborhood.

We had heard there was a parade that Charlie and I thought was yearly (we just had never been) but come to find out this was the 1st Annual Braintree 4th of July Parade. Kind of cool... We figured Audrey would get a kick out of it, so we put her in the backpack one our neighbors loaned us and walked to the end of the street. All of our neighbors were out which was fun to see them.

It was a pretty cool parade and Audrey actually was very content in the backpack for the entire thing (it was over an hour!). Ask Charlie how his back is doing after carrying our little girl is another story... I wasn't sure how all the loud noises from the fire trucks and cars would go over but she seemed very mezmorized by the whole thing. There were a bunch of marching bands, bagpipes, police cars, and even Cookie Monster and Elmo.

The fireworks are at 10 pm tonight, so I'm not sure if Audrey will make it up for them. If so it will be interesting to see her reaction, love or hate them... She actually was awake for them last year and they didn't phase her, though she was 3 weeks old...