Happy Birthday America!

We went and visited Grandma & Papa at the lake for Fourth of July weekend! The kids were soo excited...it had been a while since we had been to their house to visit. Unfortunately, Gabe couldn't go with us. He had to work on that Saturday and had some school work to catch up on...remember...he's taking 9 hours of summer school right now.
We drove down on Friday evening. It had rained pretty much all day at home, but luckily it stopped once we got on the road. We made it just in time for dinner.

Saturday wasn't too sunny out, but the girls still made the most of it. Here they are 'hamming' it up for the camera!

Sunday was much better weather!! We spent all day outside...it was great!! We swam, we got some sun, the kids rode the wave runner with Uncle Stacy and Cole, Grandma grilled hamburgers & hot dogs for us, and we swam some more.


Then we had a late afternoon snack of watermelon. Yummo!!! It just isn't Fourth of July without watermelon! :)





That night we went over to Aunt Mary's house for the firework show. It's really neat because lots of people around the lake contribute to the show. And her neighbors really went all out!!! It was nuts how many fireworks they had! We would think that they were done, but then here would come another round. It was great! The kids still weren't too interested in the fireworks this year. They don't appreciate how loud they are. So they opted to play in Aunt Mary's house.
Another thing that we really enjoyed over the weekend was the shuffleboard table!!!! My Dad has always had this, but it was in Aunt Mary's garage for a while and now he finally got it moved into their garage. We would have daily games and for some reason this game never gets old. Its so much fun! My Dad took great pride in teaching Cole how to play and was impressed how quickly he picked it up. Even Zach showed a little bit of interest in learning how to play.

Thanks Mom & Dad for a great weekend!! We had lots of fun!!