Our First 4th of July in Italy

    Happy 4th of July ya'll! We celebrated yesterday by going to the 4th of July festival on base. Before heading over there, we stopped by our friends house. We weren't sure how busy it was going to be, so we followed each other.

 Of course we had to snap a few family pics before leaving!

 I love this growing boy so much!

     To my surprise, when we got on base around 5:30, it wasn't busy at all! We parked sort of far from where the festival was taking place because we thought it would make leaving a lot easier. The first thing we did when we got inside was setup our little area for the night. We forgot a blanket, but thankfully our friends remembered to bring one.

    We got hungry pretty quickly, so the guys set off to get us some food {and beer for them}. We snacked pretty much all night.

     After we ate dinner, we walked around for a little while. They had carnival rides for the kids, so we took Connor to see them. He loved hearing the music and watching the kids on the rides.

    We grabbed some snow cones on our way back to our seats. Connor really loved them! Every once in a while he would get the shivers because it was too cold for him.

 Connor and his friend Holden.

    Daddy surprised us with our next snack: cotton candy! It didn't really taste like cotton candy, but I ate it. Connor liked holding the stick it was on more than eating it.

   Then we waited for it to get dark and the firework show to start. There were a lot more people there by this time.

     The fireworks started at 10:30 sharp. Connor really liked them, but only lasted 10 minutes before he fell asleep in my arms. Honestly, I can't believe he managed to stay awake to see them. I was surprised he could sleep through the bangs, but he did. Although, he must have known they were going off in his sleep because he pointed up at the sky, opened his eyes for a second, and then went back to sleep.

    The show ended at 11 and we were at the car by 11:20. Connor was exhausted because he managed to stay asleep when we put him in the stroller, then transferred him to his car seat, then to his crib. I even was able to change him to a night diaper in his crib and he stayed asleep!
     Today has been a very laid back day. Connor slept the whole night, but woke us up at 7. We managed to let him run around our room while we stayed in bed "just a little longer." He did take a nice long morning nap... which I joined him and took one as well :) We planned on letting him swim today, but it has been cloudy most of the day and the water is cool. I made a yummy lunch and we are going to order pizza for dinner. Not your typical 4th of July barbecue, but it works for me!

 Even though he didn't go swimming, I had to get a picture of him in his patriotic diaper!