Plant a seed and watch it grow!

SO, Carter has a book about planting seeds and watching them grow. The other day he asked if we could plant some seeds. So, I got some seeds and dad helped do the dirty work!

Do we have everything we need?

Daddy and Carter started putting dirt into the pots.

Then Carter made holes for the seeds.

He worked with Daddy to get those teeny, tiny seeds in the holes.

Then we took them out back and gave them a good watering.

We were back out today to water them again!

Happy Fourth of July!

We spent our first 4th in Nebraska this year. We had some good friends of ours over and enjoyed BBQ and watching the kids play in the pool and shooting off some fireworks and playing with poppers.

Carter's favorite firework was the one with the parachutes. He loved chasing them down!

After a while everyone was hot and sweaty (notice the hair). So we decided to take a bomb pop break.

Then we traveled to another neighborhood with our friends to watch some CRAZY fireworks (and I do mean crazy, we had shrapnel falling on our heads.)

This is Carter with his beloved Kate enjoying the fireworks.

And then the biggest event of the night . . . Carter got to have his first, very own sparkler (or sprinkler according to him). This, of course, scared me half to death, but it had a VERY long stick and he LOVED it.

We had a great day celebrating our countries independence.