July Fourth

We usually go to the family lake cabin for July 4th, but this year was a little different.  The State baseball tournament started on July 5th, we thought we were going to have practice on the fourth so we didn't really make any plans.  The week of Coach decided to cancel practice so we started trying to figure out what everyone was doing.  My little brother invited us to his house on the lake for the day.  We really considered just spending the night with them because the baseball tournament was 20 minutes from their house, we decided against it since we knew Barrett probably wouldn't sleep well.

This is the first time we've gotten to enjoy the lake at their house.  AveryAnn had been out of her cast for almost 3 weeks and she was starting to get around really well.  We had so much fun swimming and playing  AveryAnn said she wanted to ride the tube, I told John to get it hooked up because before she changed her mind.  She was so cute.  We got on it and she was smiling and said "This is going to be so fun!!" Then, I had us sitting to far up on it and it went under when we took off and she started screaming and crying.  

She did not enjoy it as much as she'd hoped she would.  Madelyn wanted to ride it too so I rode it with her.  Thankfully she was on it with me because we  hit some giant waves and John slowed down.  If I'd been by myself I'd probably still be rolling across the water.  After the girls rode the tube Barrett decided he wanted to ride the seadoo with me.  I was shocked.  He's never really been a fan of anything like that. That all changed this summer.  He would have ridden it all day long if we'd let him (with us of course).

They just got new neighbors, we were jumping off the dock and she yelled over if the kids wanted to go down the slide on their dock they could.  John and I asked if adults were allowed to go down the slide and she said yes, adults were also allowed.  So we swam over and went down the slide a few times.  They were so nice and we enjoyed getting to meet them.  

Then it was time to feed the catfish.  The kids loved getting to see all the fish.

We went in and changed clothes so we could shoot fireworks.  My kids aren't huge fans of fireworks but the ones John got were pretty mild.  Barrett was really excited about it this year.

AveryAnn tolerated it.  After we shot the fireworks it was time to head home.  We got to see lots of great fireworks on the way home.  We had the best time with John and Hope, and can't wait to go back and hang out with them!