friday - my mom, my sister & i took the kids to the parade - which is always fun....u saw one of these pics in my happy 4th post.....here's 2 more
loud sirens
candy scramble
that evening, we were supposed to have friends over for a campfire, drinks & s'mores before heading to the fireworks.....but then it rained - i mean poured! so curtis & i relaxed on the front porch, while the kids rode scooters and ran in & out of the rain.....waiting for it to stop.....it finally did, just long enough to get a fire started, make some s'mores & set off a few of our own fireworks & sparklers before heading to the big show.....our friends ended up staying dry at home, but we didn't let the rain bother us.....the kids' neighbor friend came by to join us too
that evening, we were supposed to have friends over for a campfire, drinks & s'mores before heading to the fireworks.....but then it rained - i mean poured! so curtis & i relaxed on the front porch, while the kids rode scooters and ran in & out of the rain.....waiting for it to stop.....it finally did, just long enough to get a fire started, make some s'mores & set off a few of our own fireworks & sparklers before heading to the big show.....our friends ended up staying dry at home, but we didn't let the rain bother us.....the kids' neighbor friend came by to join us too
catching lightning bugs while daddy gets the fire going
patiently waiting
mmmmm, s'mores
sparklers! (gabby wasn't too eager to hold one this year)
then we met up with my brother, his wife & son to watch the New Market fireworks show from our traditional spot on the Shenvalee golf course (i'm telling ya, it's never packed there & u've got a great view of the fireworks).....thankfully, the rain was long over & they went off without a hitch
saturday, the kids and i took the day to just do NOTHING! i'm serious - they all climbed in my bed after daddy left for work & we watched Hannah Montanna and Power Rangers & ate cereal.....then we got dressed about 11am & headed to Nana & Grandpa's to play.....we spent the whole day just playing and hanging out
sunday was church without daddy.....the choir (which my mom is a member of) performed their July 4th cantata instead of us having a sermon (which meant no children's church for the last half of the service) & the kids sat wonderfully through the entire service.....i even had one of the elderly ladies tell me as we were leaving, how well-behaved they are! :0)
then, as soon as daddy got home from work, we headed to my aunt's in WVa for a cook-out.....again, it POURED down rain (luckily, after all the food was off the grill tho), so we were stuck inside.....but we had fun eating, talking & watching the boys play Madden.....here's the simple patriotic cake i made for dessert - strawberry....it was my first cake after coming back from vacay ;0)
the fog around the mountains as we were driving home - too cool
so, i'm back to work today (boooo!).....it's also jaden's first day of summer school.....he was excited about going - but was mostly worried that he'd miss swimming at daycare (they go to the public pool every Monday & Wednesday)......and you know? another routine change - it takes a few days for things to go smoothly after a change in his schedule like this.....after convincing him that he'd get off the bus from summer school at daycare, have lunch, THEN his class would head to the pool (summer school is only till noon & they don't go to the pool till 1pm), he was cool.....he's such a fish this summer! i think he'd live in the pool if we'd let him ;0) his 8th birthday is wednesday (gasp! already?!) & we're having his pool party on sunday.....he CANNOT wait!
patiently waiting
mmmmm, s'mores
sparklers! (gabby wasn't too eager to hold one this year)
then we met up with my brother, his wife & son to watch the New Market fireworks show from our traditional spot on the Shenvalee golf course (i'm telling ya, it's never packed there & u've got a great view of the fireworks).....thankfully, the rain was long over & they went off without a hitch
saturday, the kids and i took the day to just do NOTHING! i'm serious - they all climbed in my bed after daddy left for work & we watched Hannah Montanna and Power Rangers & ate cereal.....then we got dressed about 11am & headed to Nana & Grandpa's to play.....we spent the whole day just playing and hanging out
sunday was church without daddy.....the choir (which my mom is a member of) performed their July 4th cantata instead of us having a sermon (which meant no children's church for the last half of the service) & the kids sat wonderfully through the entire service.....i even had one of the elderly ladies tell me as we were leaving, how well-behaved they are! :0)
then, as soon as daddy got home from work, we headed to my aunt's in WVa for a cook-out.....again, it POURED down rain (luckily, after all the food was off the grill tho), so we were stuck inside.....but we had fun eating, talking & watching the boys play Madden.....here's the simple patriotic cake i made for dessert - strawberry....it was my first cake after coming back from vacay ;0)
the fog around the mountains as we were driving home - too cool
2 comments:
We spent the day relaxin' too. It's nice to just do nothing once in awhile!
We walked down to a local fireworks show...but it was really really pitiful which is what you get when donations don't come in I guess! :O) But anyway...walked back home & enjoyed the Boston works on tv. It was actually amazingly beautiful! So glad we bought the big tv for Christmas!
Anyway...
Glad you guys had a sweet memory makin' time!
xoxo...
...danielle
What a nice time! Wesley would live in the water if we let him also:)
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