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Celebrate America

Each year, First Baptist Church of Arnold has a ‘Celebrate America’ event. There’s food, rides, a car show, a motocross show, and fireworks. This is our second year going. We met up with some families from church and enjoyed a fun night with beautiful weather.

Kai had just found a ladybug, so he was a bit distracted

a picture of a a picture being taken of a corndog inside of a corndog

even more extreme than Maggi’s #corndoginception

fair foods are always a good choice

(photo by Kai)

first baptist church arnold firework show

4th of july first baptist church of arnold

I was so sure that Evangeline and Kingston would hate the fireworks. Evangeline actually giggled while watching them–which I guess pushed her into a slaphappy mood for the next hour, giggling about anything, everything, and nothing. Kai had a momentary breakdown from being scared, but he recovered quickly in his daddy’s arms.
It was such a fun evening! So glad that we went!

July 1, 2014

Blog, friends, photoshoot, st. louis

arch madness

Today’s post has 3 main characters–the arch, Maggi, and Mary Kate. I happen to love all three…hence the multitude of pictures of them.

When Maggi and I heard about the Malcom Martin Memorial Park in Illinois, we both immediately said “let’s go!” The park has the perfect view of the St. Louis skyline. And while the park is located in East St. Louis, the only people we even came across complimented us on our coordinating outfits (and maybe made fun of Maggi for taking a picture of a bush.) So it doesn’t fit in with the usual bad reputation that East St. Louis gets.

We started off our adventure at Bob’s Drive-In for Kim’s birthday lunch.

Then we headed out to the park

that fountain behind Maggi is a little hard to see but it’s actually the second tallest fountain in the world, reaching a maximum height of 600 feet (which is the same height as the Arch…for all you trivia people)