Weekend + July 4th

Friday afternoon started out with a little stroll around the neighborhood waiting on Daddy to get done with his weekly video conference. Then we had a low key evening of grilling on the back deck.. per usual.



Saturday morning AJ left briiiiight and early to go fly fishing with Judson. He borrowed some gear from his Dad... needless to say, he was looking and feeling like a professional on his first ever fly fishing trip, ha! 

I got this picture from him and was pretty impressed that he had caught a fish!! 

Until he made the camera angle correct and realized he had pretty much caught some more bait.. ha! 

Meanwhile, my girl and I hit up the grocery store and the Downtown Woodstock farmers market. It was a fun little morning with just the two of us :)

Then we set out to meet Bayley, Judson and Solomon at the splash pad. This place was sooo nice, and clean, and cheap. You can find us here pretttyy much every weekend until October! 

Maddie Jane had SO much fun!! The rain came pretty quickly, but we were excited to get a solid hour of playing in! 

We got Maddie girl home and ready for her new babysitter - Ms. Abby - so we could go on a date night!! 

We hopped around to a couple places downtown Woodstock and loved every single minute of it. Pure for margs and chips, Truck & Tap for beer, and then finished the night off at Ice for a sushi roll and martini. 

Sunday morning we made it to the early service at Woodstock City Church and loved it just as much as the first time. Happy to have found this little (well BIG) place! 

Maddie Jane made this sweet little bag in Wumba Land. It might just be a paper bag with some stickers, but I sure do love seeing what she did! 

We rode over to Roswell to have lunch with Bruce at Oak Street and this girl was OUT.

I wanted to do this cute little tray for the 4th, but with my ingredients quickly diminishing with Maddie's new yogurt covered pretzel craze, I made it Sunday night!

Girl could be a vegetarian.. just give her allllll the fruit, dairy, and sweets! 

I also had plans to make a festive cocktail and this was as far as I got.. a couple berries thrown into my wine.. ha! 

Maddie Jane saw Molly drinking water out of her pool, so she figured she needed to do so too! 

For the 4th we went Downtown Woodstock (see a theme here? haha) for their annual July 4th parade! 

Maddie was ALL about it. She saw a train for the first time (#caligirlprobs) and was mesmerized! 

It was HOT. I mean insanely hot. Thank goodness we had some Kona Ice to cool us off! 

Eekk! Love that little booty. Watermelon icee stain and all :) 

We went home for naps -- Maddie Jane almost took a 3 hour one!! And then ended the day back on the back deck.. 

Until it started pouring rain and we snuggled up on the couch for a movie. After we got her to bed, we had a non-traditional 4th of July feast.. Parmesan corn and squash with whole grilled mackerel. 

With SO much going on these past few weeks, it was nice to have a pretty low key holiday with just the three of us :) We didn't see fireworks or attend a big cookout, but it was time I will always treasure! Bring on another crazy weekend of guests and to dos!!