a fun-filled fourth!

I have a love/hate relationship with the Fourth of July. It's a perfect summer holiday, but it also means it's the last holiday of the summer. Well, not technically, because there's still Labor Day, but that means summer is over...so the Fourth signifies that there is not much of summer left...because 2 months flies by, at least in our house!

The weekend would have been perfection if we didn't have to deal with Matt's first (and hopefully only) case of Poison Sumac. Yuck. He'd been sick the week before with a fever and when his fever breaks, he gets a hive-y looking rash all over his body and when the rash didn't go away, he didn't think much of it. Until he started itching.

My dad and his girlfriend took Matt, me, my sister Laura and the boys out to a delicious breakfast and after breakfast Matt couldn't stand the discomfort anymore so he headed to the Take Care Clinic at Walgreens where a diagnosis of Poison Sumac was made. Turns out there is a row of it that backs up to the chain link fence dividing our yard from our next door neighbors and Matt brushed up against it when he was doing some yardwork. Ugh.

But he made the best of it and we celebrated the Fourth at a cookout with friends. Logan had so much fun with his friends running around, splashing in the pool and playing with army guys. There was a little rainstorm after we ate and we got to see a double rainbow! He was so cute during the fireworks display, oooh-ing and ahhh-ing and jumping around with the excitement of it all. Meyer liked them too but preferred the comfort of my lap. :)