4th of July

We went on a fun trip this weekend to visit family for the 4th. We took out the bucket seats in the van and made a bed for the kids. What is really amazing is that we found the campsite we were meeting Ryan's family at (it was about 3 in the morning when we arrived--totally exhausted).The kids were so cute. They all just sat on this bench by the fire, all by themselves.
We took the boat out Friday night to go do fireworks on a beach on the Indian side of the lake.


Fireworks+4 lighters+4 pyros=Lucky that the boat didn't blow up.


We quickly discovered if you threw the flowers up and timed it just right, they would ignite and spin on top of the water and make a really cool noise. It was highly entertaining. We got three at once.


The kids love the wave runner. Especially Kathleen. I didn't think I could possible take her on enough rides. She is a pretty good driver.

I didn't get any pictures of wake surfing (every year there is a new thing to try out; surfing was this year's adventure), but I did get one of tubing.



I don't know how Cody got his mad candy-finding skills, but he had candy in his hand every time we saw him. I am not even entirely sure where he got some of it from. But the best was after he was buried, he broke out and had candy in his hand. I guess you can't beat that.








We went to Lake Coeur d'Alene for a firework show on the 4th. We had a ton of fun.





And of course, when we got home, the lawn needed to be mowed. So Brandon helped.