Beach and Fourth of July

This week has been busy, so I haven't had time to write about and post pics from our vacation at the beach and then at the lake. We had so much fun! The kids had lots of fun at the beach this year. It was definitely rainy, but we had some good weather every day, and the last day we were there was beautiful! We ate LOTS of delicious food while we were there. The last night we were there, we stayed on the beach and had a picnic. The kids loved it! We came home for one night and then headed for the lake! My cousin and his family were there, and we had so much fun! Again... it rained, but we just kinda ignored the rain and kept going. We had fun swimming in the lake and tubing. Fran went tubing for the first time! She really liked it! We started the summer with Rush having a pretty significant fear of the water after a scary pool incident he had at the end of last summer. He has made great strides this week at swimming lessons, but he wouldn't go tubing last week. I think he would have done it if he had already been to swimming lessons. Miss Amber has really helped him overcome that panicky feeling he had in the water.

Now for the picture overload...