4th of July and Macie's First Steps!

I know it's a little late, but we had a good 4th of July, so I am finally getting around to posting it. During the day we went down to Firth for a little family reunion/BBQ at my parents house. Macie LOVED being surrounded by so many people who would smother her with attention. She loves playing with little kids and has a fascination with teeth, and especially if they happen to have braces! Sorry to my nieces who had Macie's finger in their teeth all day. We had a good lunch and then had a combined baby shower for my two nieces. Then we all headed to Menan for another little family reunion/BBQ on my Dad's side. I'm sure I'm boring everyone with this, but I am going to finish:) Then we went and watched the I.F. fireworks with my family. I thought that Macie would either love or hate the fireworks. She hates thunder, so I thought maybe she wouldn't like the noise. But she liked them for the first ten minutes, then she didn't really care either way. We had a great fourth spent with family and are glad to live in a country that allows us our freedoms. Here are a few pictures from the fireworks. I forgot my camera at home during the day:(



I guess I do have one picture of our BBQ. I was able to snag this picture from my sister's Facebook, thank you Lisa. Macie stole this ice cream from one of her cousins! She's never had her own, so I thought I would be nice and let her keep this one. She was in heaven...what could be better than ice cream on the 4th of July?!


Reed and Macie.


Cousins!


More cousins!


And more cousins! This is only a very small taste of Macie's cousins on this side of the family!


This is Reed with our niece who fell asleep in his arms. Reed loved it:)



And this is a picture that was too cute not to post! She is growing up way too fast! On Sunday, July 5th, she took her first few real steps. And they were to her DADDY! I'm sure he would have wanted me to put that in:) She keeps getting better and better, she'll be running around in no time! And here is the really crazy thing...our baby girl turns ONE on the 28th of this month!