Thursday, July 05, 2007

A great Fourth













Slip and Slide fun. Carter called his moves, "Slip and surf". Josh's momentum would leave him about 10 feet shy of the end of the slide. The big boys were able to annialiate the entire slide, ending up in the grass.

We spent the Fourth at my brother and sister-in-law's house. It was a day full of eating, playing, splashing, slip-and-sliding, and just relaxing. So much fun! We went to see fireworks the night before, so we just stayed at Tommy and Melannie's last night until after dark and lit sparklers and a few 'fireworks' Scott had bought for the kids.



No reason the dads couldn't cool off in the pool. 'Cool off' would be an understatement, though. The water was freezing!



Melannie, Bobby, and I spent most of the time watching all the action, which was immensely enjoyable. I highly recommend this method of celebrating.


The adults all had a big laugh as we discovered that every firework in the pack was exactly the same. The packaging was varied, but as soon as they were lit, the fireworks each revealed the same brightly dancing white-ish stars. So much for judging a firework by its cover...
Josh loves bugs, so the day did not disappoint him as we found this enormous, shiny beetle climbing up a tree. He quickly declared it 'a dinasour beetle.'

I'll be posting photos as soon as our camera makes its way back from Scott's office. We had three sleeping kiddos when we pulled into home late last night, so all of our belongings didn't make it into the house until this morning, and some apparently not even then. I was thankful to have made it home safely after such a long, full day.

Note: There is a little redhead missing from the photos, I sadly realized after I finished downloading them this afternoon. Sophie was napping through a good bit of the afternoon, although she did get in the pool with Daddy and Uncle Tommy after she woke up.

4 comments:

Nikki said...

I love the update!! Been waiting to see how you were doing :). All is well??

Tami@ourhouse said...

Yes, we are fine! Thanks for asking. I still have until the end of August to have this baby, but I think I need all the time I can get...

kafredrick said...

It looks like you all had a great time. What a blessing to be able to be so close to family!!

Tami@ourhouse said...

It is great to be so close. Yesterday made us want to move onto the same street! It's fun when you are adults and you become real friends with your siblings.