July 4th-extra long weekend-2011

4 days off this year - 4 days!!!  Back at work today it feels like I had none.  How does that happen??  At the time though they were the best 4 days ever.

Friday I took all day off and decided to take the girls to the pool for the day.  Rowan was all for it - Lily wanted to go to school.  Can you believe it?  We thought she would change her mind all the way up until she waved goodbye to Rowan and I as we dropped her off at school.  Shrugs.  What are we supposed to do with that?  We ran some errands and went to the pool for the day. 

Friday night McKenzie slept over because we got up early on Saturday and headed to New Gretna to visit Auntie JoAnn and Uncle Paul for the day at their campsite.  We did a little touring in Smithville.

Then headed back to the campsite and to the pool for the rest of the afternoon to the delight of all three girls.

We came home after dinner at the campground and McKenzie spent the night again as all three girls fell asleep on the ride home - which we knew was going to happen.

Sunday McKenzie went home and did family stuff.  That left us and the Gages next door.  Sam and I went grocery shopping together then we all grilled and ate together and decided to head to Kids Castle to see some fireworks.  A storm blew through while we were getting dinner together but it cleared up nicely after that - however, unbeknownst to us it caused them to cancel the fireworks we drove out to see.   Bummer.  So the kids played at the Castle for a bit and then we all decided to go play MiniGolf instead!

Back home for some ice cream and we called it a night.

Monday we all slept in until after 8am!!  Whoohoo!  Once we finally got going the kids and Parker decided to wash the cars.

Then the girls and I headed for the pool again.  It was sunny, it was warm and the water was perfect.  After about 3 1/2 hours there I was thinking of calling Parker to come and get us and lo and behold guess who walked in?  The girls were THRILLED to see him.

Home at 5pm to grill and have some fresh picked veggies from our garden - YUM!

We thought about heading out for some fireworks but decided it would just be too late for the girls so we did pop its and sparklers at home with the Gages and tried to get pictures of the  fireworks the next street over was sending up in the skies.

All in all another great 4th of July weekend.