Celebrations: Father's Day, Toni's birthday, America

For Father's Day, Max's school had an ice cream celebration & we didn't miss it because we love some ice cream in the Glover household. 

Brandon was talking to someone he knew when I took this picture from the car. 

 I love, love when our kids answer questions about us. They are always so accurate. 

We are way more grateful for him than this card (that I possibly forgot to write Max's name on) suggests. He keeps us going, for sure. 

We were actually in Florida on the real day, so we celebrated Pops by buying him a dozen oysters (really, he only got 10 because I ate 2 of them.)

Also, we planned ahead and gave him a goody bag at the beach, full of random things like olives and a massage gift card. Aunt Manda came through on organizing that one for us. 

Another exciting celebration occurred when our GG celebrated her birthday! We went to eat Mexican food, which was so delicious after a week of seafood. 

Max was, per usual, incredibly willing to participate in pictures. Also, there was a brief yet terrifying few days where we thought the Fireman outfit was going to be replaced by this Army camo one. Luckily, I now know to hide things like this before they can become obsessions. 

Because true love is playing play doh with your grandkid at the dinner table.

I am now 0 for about 8 on trying to replicate Toni's cake. While I should be able to make it by following the recipe, some part of my ability fights it every time. I did make up for the not quite the right taste by serving it on a Presidents placemat, so I think winning was involved. 

All of my happiness can be traced back to GG, so I am incredibly grateful for her strong presence in our lives, her face that was passed on so many times and those blue eyes that I now see all around me every day. We love you, GG!!

Next up: AMERICA!!!!!

Max made this shirt at school and he was SO PROUD of himself. It was seriously precious how much he wanted to show it off. 

Farragut Independence Day Parade! Anderson was explaining to Max how the propellers make the helicopter fly. It was so precious and accurate. I love when they actually get along. 

The fire truck! Also, when it got to us, the firemen actually stopped and waved at their co-worker Max, who quickly became incredibly shy and hid in my shirt. But, it was still pretty awesome. 

Anderson is an intense kid, which is one of the many things I love about him. I have even realized the many strengths in this trait and started to use them to our advantage. 

We were at the very end of the parade route and the popsicle truck was really far down, so I sent Anderson down there with instructions to come back with 2. If you look closely, you can see him in the blue shirt toward the front of the truck. 

I thin nobody is surprised when I say that he got them popsicles. 

We spent most of the Fourth hanging at Noni & Bop's where we had a pretty awesome water balloon fight. Well, for Noni, it was more of a massacre....

And, we ended the night with fireworks with GG at her friend's house. I love this one of Brandon giving other small kids fire. It takes a village. 

I mean, my photo opportunities are amazing. 

Wow. They keep getting better. 

Max LOVED the fireworks. He was cackling the entire time that we were watching them and kept commenting on them. It was so, so funny. 

Good times.