Fourth of July Weekend

Friday was the 4th of July.  As has become tradition for our family we went to a party at our friends', Jim and Tamie Brown, home.  Here is what happens every year at the Brown's party; we eat A LOT of really good food, we talk and laugh with good friends, and we cap the night off with fireworks in there culd-a-sac.  This year did have some differences, however, namely the addition of a balloon animal maker and face painter and the added excitement of a few firework mishaps (the worst of which was a firework launching straight into the neighbors house). As is always the case, everyone came home exhausted after a really fun evening.  In fact, we had such a good time I forgot to take pictures.  The lone picture from the evening came courtesy of Jeremy's phone.  He and his friend, Matt, captured this little moment between Merrick and Matt's daughter, Silver.

The other highlight of the weekend was our visit yesterday to the river beach.  Jeremy had class yesterday morning and when he got home he needed to study.  I decided to take the kids and go to the river to feed the ducks.  There were a lot of people around and the ducks were few and far between.  We did manage to find a few and the geese were plentiful.  Merrick enjoyed feeding them the sunflower seeds we brought, but Carrigan preferred to eat them herself.  Eventually Merrick started asking to go in the water and we decided if we were going to do that we needed to go get swimsuits and daddy.

After a change of attire and with the addition of Jeremy we headed back to the river.  Merrick of course got right in and played until we forced him to leave.  We had not put Carrigan's swimsuit on because we figured she would not really want to go in the water.  We were wrong.  She loved running in and out and after fallling a few times was sufficiently soaked.

Despite the fact that our lives have become completely monopolized by bar study, we managed to squeeze in a bit of family fun this 4th of July weekend.