4th of July Weekend

We had a fun filled 4th of July weekend! We started with swimming in the fun pool at Uncle Rick & Aunt Cami's housing area on Friday. Being a holiday weekend we expected the pool to be packed. We were pleasantly surprised to find only a handful of people there...much more enjoyable that way! On Saturday we had a BBQ at our house with Uncle Rick and family. Alan got to use his brand new grill that he came home to (it was his belated Father's Day/welcome home gift!). After the BBQ we enjoyed a yummy dessert provided by Aunt Cami and a firework show put on by the "men". We started with sparklers. I helped Brikelle with hers and had to keep her from trying to touch the sparkler as it was going. As soon as the sparkler was done burning she grabbed the hot part and I wasn't quick enough to stop her. Needless to say, she burned her hand and has a nice looking blister on her finger. She was so upset and it took awhile to calm her. Once she calmed down we started the fireworks and at first Brikelle liked them and thought they were cool, but once they started getting loud she wasn't very fond of them. Eventually she started crying so Mom and Brikelle watched from Dad's truck. That satisfied her for a bit but then she was done and wanted to go inside. Once she was settled watching her Blue's Clues movie, I was able to go out and watch the rest of the show! On Sunday we enjoyed some super yummy Smores...the pictures speak for themselves! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend too!

Happy Birthday America!