Proud of the Red, White and Blue (and Sonic too)

Happy

Birthday

America!

Two of the cutest lil' sparklers I know =).

We watched Thunderfest from the cheap seats (aka Sonic drive-in on Louisville Road) last night. We met up with our cousins and the Maglinger/Garcia bunch and had the best time. My sister broke out a fun bag of tricks with sparklers and pop-its which kept the kids thoroughly entertained during the wait.

This weekend is a little sad for me. We usually spend it at the lake with my extended family at the Pogue compound on Nolin. Long story short, my grandfather isn't in the best of health and the lake property has been sold (or at least I think so???). It will be odd not going there on the weekend holidays and catching up with everyone. However, most of my cousins are grown, a couple of them married and with kids. It's sad to think of losing touch with them--thank goodness for Facebook and blogging, huh? I have some of the best memories at the lake and hope to create those with my children. We did start a new tradition though and went to Barren River this afternoon. I'm hoping my parents will purchase a cabin there soon. It close to BG, not quite as big as Nolin, has a cool beach, Lodge, etc. We hung out with Matt's family riding on the boat and jet ski and swimming in the lake. It was such a nice afternoon. This weather has been AWESOME!!!

Miles and Pap SeaDooin'

Enjoying the lake and boat with Uncle Seth.

Isaac SeaDooin' and swimming like a fish.

I know it's hard to believe that I have a daughter that's a drama Queen. I'm sure I'm the only blogging mother with one of "those" =). She was unhappy almost the entire time we were out on the lake. The girl has some EXTREME phobias. She WOULD NOT get in and almost hyperventilated on a couple different occasions (not really but she was breathing heavily). She never warmed up to getting on the SeaDoo, getting in the water; the only thing she wanted to do was GET OFF that boat.

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Happy 4th of July to everyone!!! Here's to a long night of listening to firecrackers and bottle rockets =)!!!