After the tent was up, we made Smores, which the kids loved. I think they had 3 or 4 each. Then we got ready for bed, and played a few games in the tent.
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| Kevin photobombing the tent picture. |
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| The pool is in the firepit location. We improvised. |
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| This girl loves Smores. |
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| We caught a few fireflies before bedtime. |
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| Arrangement #1 of several throughout the night. |
As for sleeping, Gwyn would not. Stop. Talking. The sleeping bags had to be moved several times so kids could sleep by parents, or something. At about 10:45, and 20 minutes of sleep (apparently, I was the only one kept up by Gwyn talking) Gwyn said she needed to go to the bathroom. I told her if we went in, I was staying in. She jumped at that, especially when I said we could share my bed, and told me that she wanted to sleep by me. I stupidly thought I could sleep, not knowing that Gwyn wanted to keep her feet on me all night, and push me. Adorable? Yes, Annoying? Yes.
The next morning she woke up, saw daddy, and started crying that she didn't get to sleep by him. Kid logic is confusing.
The next day was filled with swimming, cooking, and building a tree house. I am never very festive for the 4th of July. I wanted to make fun food for the kids. So today was making red, white and blue rice krispie treats.(Hey, I have 3 kids. It needed to be super-easy.) The kids helped, and had fun. So did I.
For dinner we went to the McGuire's, and then headed to fireworks at Old St. Charles. I never really want to go to fireworks. I don't want to deal with the crowds and the heat. But the weather was AMAZING. It was almost chilly that evening! I had no excuses, and I was excited about it. I even made sure we were all wearing red, white and blue. Kevin found the best parking spot, which no one had parked in since there was a cable blocking it. Our little car was perfect for the spot! The walk was short to the riverfront from there.
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| The cable is blocking more than it looks like from this angle. McGuire Win. |
It was great. We had some blankets to claim our spot. The boys played with other kids while we waited for it to get dark. Gwyn and Kevin walked around, and bought the smallest funnel cake ever. I waited at the blankets conquering the Maze Ball with mad skillz. We even shared our rice krispie treats with people next to us. (They also gave us a blue ball the guy had won at a game, which the boys played with for an hour.)
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| Kevin tackling the Maze Ball, and Gwyn practicing wearing her headphones. |
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| Colin and Kevin are the two sitting on the hill, but they were playing. They must have known I was going to take a picture and turned grumpy just to ruin it. |
The fireworks were great. There is another community that does fireworks at BMAC, which is a few miles away. Sometimes you could see both firework shows at the same time .BMAC's were just barely over the tree line. Here are my fire work pictures, since no one knows what they look like.
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| Not the best picture, but you can see BMAC's fireworks at the bottom. |
The next day was the same: tree house building and baking. We made more rice krispies, this time with sprinkles, and a couple dipped in white chocolate. But we also made red, white, and blue strawberries. It was another simple recipe that I found with the boys. They were fun to make, and so delicious. I may have to make them every year. And on Bastille Day. Just to have another reason to make them. And just for more fun, we made home-made lemonade.
We had friends over Saturday night and had planned to shoot off fireworks of our own. Thursday night we had walked to the stand up the road about bought a bunch. The boys wanted to invite our 6 surrounding neighbors. Instead of walking door to door right before, they decided to write out invitations. Those were delivered Friday morning.So our fireworks show had 16 extra people.
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| These are really from the St. Charles fireworks show, but who really reads captions? |
On Sunday we headed to the zoo, but that is another blog post. To be continued...
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