Blake, Addy and I headed up to my parents cabin on Wednesday night after swimming lessons for the weekend of the 4th of July. Aaron only had the 4th off, and had to return to work for that Friday and Saturday so he stayed home. One hard thing with his crazy summer hours – leaving him home on weekends like this.
We didn’t even leave until about 9 at night so arrived to my parents cabin around midnight. My family had all been there for the entire week, and they were waiting for us to arrive. The weekend basically consisted of swimming, playing a TON with cousins, watching fireworks, and relaxing.
The first day there was the actual 4th of July. The kids had made 4th of July shirts at daycare on that week so I had them wear those for the festivities J The lake always has a boat parade, so we decorated the pontoon and headed out on that for the parade as well.
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| Ready for the boat parade! |
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| Happy 4th of July! |
Blake wasn’t so sure what to think of the water at first – which cracks me up because he LOVES LOVES LOVES the water at bath time. However, he got used to it eventually and then he didn’t want me to take him out J
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| This water thing isn't so bad :) |
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| Tubing!!!! |
Addy enjoyed swimming. She got a little nervous because of the temp of the water at first, but she warmed up to it quickly.
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| Swimming and relaxing! |
Blake wasn’t so excited about the fireworks at first. He didn’t like the loud bangs…he cuddled in with my sister Angela and eventually he warmed up to it! He actually ended up falling asleep during them while we sat on the pontoon and watched them.
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| Those are loud :( |
Addy enjoyed them, but she was just tired at that point in the evening – so she actually asked if she could go to bed during the fireworks. The pontoon was in the boat lift on my parent’s dock – we hadn’t gone out into the water…so my dad carried her up and tucked her in during the fireworks. J
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| Goofing around with Drew and watching fireworks.... |
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| Not even 10 minutes later...ready to crash! LOL |
The rest of the weekend was spent doing more of the same…swimming, playing, bonfires, etc. The kids always have a blast at the cabin – playing with all of the cousins. Not only my nieces and nephews – but my uncle Don has a cabin right next to my parent’s cabin. We share a driveway to our cabins and a dock…so we spend a lot of the time mixed between the 2 families. My cousins, Kristen and Michelle, were there with their kids as well. So all the 2nd cousins played also!
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| Messy boy from playing in the sand! |
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| Addy and Chloe! |
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| Taking a break from playing and swimming for a little snack! |
It’s actually really nice, because my niece Brynne is getting old enough that she can kind’ve keep an eye on the kids when they are playing games in the yard. And especially with my cousins’ kids there as well, I don’t worry too much because they are even older and great with keeping an eye on Blake and Addy.
That helped me feel like I could relax a bit more than I have in the past, having to be 2 steps behind whatever the kids would be doing when they were outside to make sure they didn’t venture toward the dock or the water on their own J
Hopefully we’ll get to have a weekend with Aaron up at the cabin before the weather gets cold again. Likely, it’ll be Labor Day weekend, as that one he knows he’ll have a 3 day weekend for. Looking forward to it!!
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