Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July! Ava had a day filled will several firsts, so of course, this will be a post of several pictures! Adam and I both were home all day and spent the morning hanging around the house playing with Ava. We discussed going and doing something several times, but we never really found something we really wanted to do, so we were just lazy for a good part of the day.

Later that night, we went to Fernandina to get on a boat to watch the fireworks. We knew this would be interesting to see Ava's reaction on the boat and also her reaction having to wear her life jacket the entire time. We left early enough to ride around for a few minutes before setting up to watch the shows. The night was absolutely perfect, we watched a beautiful sunset and the moon was about 2 days from being a full moon, so it was georgeous all the way around- great for pictures :)




After we rode around for a little while, we got into postion to watch the fireworks. We sat in the intercoastal and were able to see fireworks from the Plantation, the Ritz, Fernandina, and St. Marys, we had, as Mr. Lane put it, surround sound :)


Ava did so good, when we were riding around, she just sat up on the front of the boat and laughed with glee watching everything go by. After we finished riding, she got a little tired and took a short nap, which we all thought was amazing as uncomfortable as she looked in her life jacket. She woke up right before the fireworks were to begin and we watched the show. She was interested, but I think her bed time just got the best of her, because about half way through the fireworks, she was out- and she stayed out, even when we took her out of her life jacket and placed her in her carseat, she didn't even wake up when we got home. She did so good and we are so proud of her. Adam and I both love that we can take her just about anywhere with us and she will do good. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th!