4th of July Fun & Lily's Birthday

Sunday morning all the military members were encouraged to wear their uniforms to church. Colin couldn't resist making faces at himself in the mirror while wearing one of Michael's hats as Michael and I got ready.
I tried to get a good shot of the two of them before we got in, but alas, Colin never seems to want to pose for pictures!
He was trying to be silly and make faces at his Sunday School teachers from behind Michael's leg as we dropped him off. Goofball! I'm trying to collect pictures of all his church friends (and little notes from the adults) before we leave town.
Here's one of his Sunday School teachers, Miss Lori.
And Miss Rhonda, reading yet another book to him.
They always do fun little crafts each week. I think he may have had more than the usual amount of help this week though!
We spent the rest of Sunday hanging out as a family and watching the fireworks all our neighbors were doing (and waiting, sure we would have to put our a fire in the yard before they were done!).

On Monday, we found a walking stick in the yard. Colin loved it and wanted to put it in a jar, but they're so fragile Michael and I opted against this one.
After I finished mowing later in the morning I came in to find Colin and Michael finishing up some playdough sushi! Too funny!
Yesterday evening we headed over to James and Lauren's for Lily's birthday party. Lauren had the whole backyard set up with different water toys and all the kids loved getting soaked! Sorry, not too many pictures of that as I was also getting pretty wet!
Here's the birthday girl, taking a turn in the swing:
And opening her presents:
And blowing out her candles:
Such a big girl now!
And a final one of Colin, "playing" with one of Lily's new toys...

Happy Birthday Lily and America!