4th of July

Yeah, finally a weekend home. It feels like we have been gone a lot lately and I have been looking forward to this weekend home to get our house back in order and rest a bit. We started off the 4th of July weekend with a barbeque on Friday night. Jen, a girl I know from work, and her husband Rich host a barbeque every year. Their house was the perfect place for the kids to play. They had a huge fenced backyard and a playground comparable to a park in the corner. It is always more enjoyable to go places if you don't have to worry about the kids constantly. It was nice to hang out with some of the girls from work without actually having to be at work. We all had a great time talking, drinking and eating good food. Oh yeah, and the kids had fun doing their fireworks especially the sparklers.
Saturday, we kinda played catch up and got some of our stuff done. I had to run a few errands, which is always easier if I don't have to take 3 kiddos with me. Robb brought the boat home from storage and him and the kids got it cleaned up and running just in time for the Yankton vacation next week. Later that night we lit off some of our small fireworks with the kids. I was surprised at how much the boys enjoy fireworks this year. Abby doensn't seem very impressed by them but isn't scared of them either.
Sunday, the 4th of July was a dreary, rainy day! We had planned to do the neighborhood bike parade in the morning and then go to the Waverly parade in the afternoon. Well so much for our plans. Everything got rained out and the kids were going crazy in the house so we headed out to do some shopping. We ended up eating at Grisanti's which is usually something we don't tackle with all three kids, but it sounded too good. Abby was a little bit of a disaster but the boys behaved well. We walked around the mall for awhile until everyone was wore out and then headed home. We are pretty boring and lame but we all took a nap in the afternoon. Luckily the weather finally cleared up that evening. We were planning on just hanging out in the driveway doing our fireworks, but a lot of the neighbors were out so it ended up being a fun filled night of fireworks. We didn't buy a lot of fireworks but some of our neighbors did, so we still got to see a good show!