4th of July

This was the first year in over 10 years that we were not on the beach in Manasquan of the 4th of July.  Even last year when we were living in the rental and the house was on the market, we still went back and spent the 4th of July there.  It definitely made us a bit sad not to be there, but we had a great time with friends and family.
On the 4th we had a cookout here with my family and then cookout again on the 5th with Ed's family. (I forgot to take pictures :(   We had a great time and lucky for us the boys finally started to come around and like fireworks.  Granted they were just in our driveway and backyard, but that's better than last time when they freaked out and ran inside.