4th of july!

(a few days late)

frank and i took the kids to the annual parade in Lancaster and met up with our traditional 4th of july friends, mandy and her (whole) family. we had a blast!! not only was the weather perfect, but the parade was nice, the kids were very well behaved and they all got along so well. kolby was tuscan's candy buddy, he helped tuscan get the candy when it was to far away in the street, or when tuscan was to busy holding lucia's hand!

everyone was of course oohing and aahhing over the twins, but there was one girl in particular who really thought vincenzo was pretty amazing...sofia - she was so excited every time she got close to him...reaching for his face, giving him hugs and kisses and he just thought it was the greatest thing ever! at one point, while anthony was holding sofia, vincenzo reached out and grabbed anthony's bicep like he was trying to determine what kind of fight it would be if he ever tried to go on a date with his daughter!! it was so funny...

after the parade was over, we all went our seperate ways and we headed out to cowlesville for an open field party/bbq and some fireworks with the schwab's. tuscan and chase had a great time playing together, "riding" on the tractor together! but i think tuscan's favorite part was riding on the 4 wheeler with frank...he had such a huge smile on his face everytime they drove around...i think to him it was comparable to being on a motorcycle! the twins ended up falling asleep before the fireworks, which was fine with us, it had already been such a long day! and tuscan actually ended up being a little bit afraid of them...he said they were to loud and he was afraid they were going to land on him! so i got to snuggle real close to him for the whole fireworks display (which was amazing by the way, big high five to the schwab's for throwing a great party!)