4th of July weekend

Happy 4th!! We had a busy weekend but it was a lot of fun. Chris had Friday off but I had to work, so he stayed home with the kids. Before that, though, I didn't have school so we went to IHOP for breakfast with the kids. That night I took the kids to the movie in the park but had a hard time finding a place to park, so we only caught about the last half hour of the movie! We had fun though, and there was a really cool lightning storm in the distance behind the movie screen.

Saturday was the busiest day. I didn't have school again, so we walked down the street to watch the parade. We got a ton of candy and Bostyn got a bead necklace. It was way too hot and the parade was way too long, so we left early and when we got home, Chris made 4th of July pancakes. He tried to dye the batter red but it came out pink (red is hard!) and some had blueberries, some had bananas, some had both. We wanted to go swimming but the pools weren't open, so we packed up our stuff and went to The Gateway to run in the fountains. Bostyn didn't go in much but Noah ran right in and we had to pry him away when it came time to leave.

We came home after that to eat lunch and take naps while Chris went on his bike ride. When we woke up, we headed to Rob's for a bbq and fireworks. There were a ton of kids there, including Bostyn's new favorite friend and Noah actually had a good time watching the fireworks. He usually gets a little freaked out by them but he told me they were the coolest fireworks ever! It was getting dark and we had a TON of fireworks to light at Margie's, so we headed over there. We started lighting them before it was fully dark and we didn't leave until almost midnight. The kids were so worn out but I was determined to use up all of the fireworks! I wasn't going to have a bag of leftovers sitting in my car for a year, like what happened from last year! So of course, the next day I found a small bag of fireworks that we had forgotten about, sitting in the back of the car. Grrr We will pop them!

Yesterday, we all slept in and then stayed in for the morning to be lazy and spent the rest of day running errands and going grocery shopping. Noah wanted more smoke bombs so we bought some of those. Just adding to the pile! We will get rid of them on the 24th.

Speaking of, Bostyn's birthday is coming up and we are planning on just doing a small get-together in a park somewhere. Once we finalize everything, I will let you know!