Happy Independence Day!

Blake and I went down to the Historic Triangle to celebrate America's birthday! It is one of the most appropriate places to celebrate. My parents had a cookout with some awesome food and family fun in Williamsburg. Then we went to visit Thor the bulldog. Carrie & Jon are babysitting him for 3 weeks this summer while his parents are away. He is one of the cutest dogs I've ever seen!

Finally, fireworks in Yorktown! Wasn't sure I was going to be able to stay awake, but obviously couldn't deprive my unborn child of the awesomeness that is fireworks at Yorktown! Plus, Blake got to take 200 pictures of fireworks. Again, an opportunity that just couldn't be missed!

There are lots more pictures in the Mobile Me Gallery! (gallery.me.com/hodges_family)

The "official" family car

Kissing my favorite car goodbye:(

Hopefully, this will be our new favorite car:)

Well..when people say kids are expensive, we are starting to find out why and apparently it starts before they are even born:)  Blake and I finally broke down and bought a minivan.  That's right, a mini-van.  After checking out every possible SUV, we decided that the small ones were too small for our family (don't forget that we have a 155 pound dog) and the big ones are just too big for me.  I'm sure we'll learn to love the minivan.  Blake has already requested that I drive him around so he can watch movies in the back:)  I will definitely miss my blue box!!!  Maybe it was because it was so ugly or just so perfect, but I loved that car!!!  Now I'll have carpet and push-button doors!

We took Bentley for a ride to Petco and he seemed to be just fine in the new car.  He may like it better because he has his own a/c vents in the very back!!!