FOURTH OF JULY FUN!!!

WOW! What a great weekend we have had! Rich got to fly home on Thursday night and so we took the day Friday to play some basketball (Rich can now attest that setting up a basketball hoop from 1-4pm is WAY more fun than weeding!) do some weeding (unfortunately the weeding only ranked about 15 min. vs. the 3 hours of ball!) and rummage around the house for food for a BBQ, which turned out to be NONE, so we had pasta and salad and a yummy creek chilled watermelon for dessert. But wait ! The fun was just beginning! Zach and I got to go hunt for fireworks, which we found B1G1F, my kind of deal, and so we got some fun Killer Bees, Smoke Bombs, Snakes, and Panda Climb and Skyline. Zach is a good little firework shopper! Then we came back and went to the creek for our 'picnic' and got to eat a yum yum dinner with gramma, swing on swings, and then it just wouldn't have been complete without a huge LUNGE into the creek (mom and gramma exempt of course!) The kids, and Rich had a great time hauling rocks and building the dam up and swimming around. But WAIT! There's More! After the fun play, we did our sparkly firework show in the street and then we SNUCK back to the park and camped out in a tent for the night!! But shhh..don't tell the neighbors! There were no signs that it was 'illegal' but we weren't sure! We found a great cove, set up the tent and told stories till about 1am. It was quite fun. Then about 4am us girls needed a bathroom, so we walked up to the house and Mck and I decided we had roughed it enough so we stayed home and finished sleeping in our beds! Then we made a nice yummy puffy oven pancake and sausage breakfast and spent the day doing chores and playing games. All in all a really fun 4th!