4th of July!

We had a pretty good 4th of July. We went down to the harbor and hung out in the big kite field, had some BBQ...I finally bought James the little table top BBQer that hes been wanting lol, so we took that instead of the big BBQ, it worked great and was MUCH easier to pack haha! Lillian and Ashlee played in the field but soon got bored of it, I don't understand my children, there we were, a beautiful day they had plently of room to run around and play and they would rather sit and be bored. Course when some other kids came by they would play with them but soon as they left, they were back to being bored again...I don't get it!

We took our shade tent to set up since it was pretty sunny and I wanted something to keep Mia under to prevent her from getting sunburt since she is too young still for sunblock. That was an insteresting event lol. We had the most dificult time putting that thing up, you would think...2 poles, 1 tent, no problem right? WRONG! First we didn't get the poles through the loop in the middle of the top of the thing, we thought...shouldn't be a problem, then we couldn't find all the pegs to stake it into the ground and then the wind was blowing and because we DID NOT have the poles looped through the top it was all wobbly haha! All this time the kids were under it having a blast playing around and it kept falling down on them! SO...we decided to take it down and start over, James went home to get some more pegs and while he was gone I found one stuck in the ground, he also went to get the paper plates we forgot and the charcoal for the BBQ...when he got back he realized he forgot the charcoal lol! So, instead of going back to the house he just went down to the store and bought some...he was gone forever! The line at the store was really long...would have been a shorter trip if he would have just went home!

Mia decided she didn't like it much out there and was fussy the whole time, she didn't want her bottle, she didn't want to be held and she didn't want to sleep. I changed her clothes because I thought maybe she was cold and changed her diaper, that helped a little but she still was not too happy. She didn't really cry a lot, just fussy.

The girls kept asking when the fireworks were going to start...over and over again! They were getting very impatient and everytime somebody shot off a firework they thought the show was starting. Just before they started we packed everything up and loaded it in the back of the suburban and had the kids sit back there to watch from there, which worked out pretty good.

It was a pretty cool show, they had lots of different kinds of fireworks, some were so HUGE and some looked 3D! They had the radio station play a special program of songs to go along with the display. It was pretty neat! As soon ad the show was over we rushed to get the rest of the stuff in the suburban and get the kids all buckled in, but we wern't fast enough, we sat in line in the parking lot for probably at least a half hour waiting to get out onto the main road. Ashlee fell asleep within 10 minutes of just being in the parking lot and Lillian was asleep before we got home (and its only MAYBE a 5 minute drive after you get on the main road)

Mia was happy to be home and went to sleep pretty quickly, the kids were out as soon as their heads hit their pillows and they slept in till almost 10am!

I can't belive I am going to be 30 in just a few days!! Wow time flies, I don't even feel like 30!