Lazy Lake Days and Fireworks

We spent part of the weekend of the 4th at my grandparents' lake house. The kids had a great time and spent a little bit of time in the water. Frannie was more of a fan of the lake than Rush. He said, "Dat water muddy." They did get some mud stirred up in the shallow end, so I guess he didn't care for that. :-) Rush was a fan of the sprinkler that Gigi bought for them to play in. It happened to spray in exactly the right way so it would send his beach ball flying into the air. Pure fun! He loved that! We spent the morning outside and then headed inside where my children proceeded to nap for a little over 3 hours. They haven't done that all summer! Nothing like some good 'ole lake fun to wear you out. The room where they were napping was the PERFECT place for a nap. There was a window unit air conditioner going with a big mattress pallet in the floor for them with clean, fresh pillows and nice worn in beach towel to use as their blankets. I really kind of wanted to curl up myself. The hum of the air conditioner, a cool room, with blankets... not a bad deal at all! Thunder rumbled all afternoon, so we stayed inside after their nap before heading home in the late afternoon. We have plans to go back later in the summer for some family time where we all spend the night. FUN!!










After we went to see Cars 2, we went to our town's fireworks display and had a picnic supper... although we didn't each much of it since we were all full of popcorn. The kids liked the fireworks this year (as opposed to being petrified last year). Phil even found a shortcut to get us out of the horrendous traffic really quickly! It was a good night. The kids were troopers... even with their after 10 pm bedtime that night. So, they slept really late the next morning..... HahahahahahahahaMwahhhahahahahahhaha! {That is their maniacal, joker laugh, by the way.} They did NOT sleep late. 5:52 am. Just like clockwork. It was still a good night, though! :-)