We celebrated my birthday the day before since we had plans to be with my family on the actual holiday. Richard puts his baking and cake decorating skills to use once a year for this occasion. Didn't he do great?
We got to slip away from the kids for a bit to enjoy a special lunch date.These next few pictures are of my family's somewhat annual summer olympics. This has become a bit of a tradition for us on the 4th. My dad comes up with all these crazy events and. rain or shine, we have a blast! When I was a teenager I felt embarrassed whenever someone walked by. Now I look forward to it!
The kids event: Throwing rags at dad's face! They got a kick out of that.
The fireman event. This is Ariel practicing her spitting skills on a flaming candle.
Couples event: I don't know what you'd call it, but we each had to stand on a bag of crushed ice while holding this balloon between us. My brother and his fiance won with a time of 5+ minutes. We eventually just told them to stop.
Firework time! Watching my kids watch them is probably more exciting than watching them myself.
The kids event: Throwing rags at dad's face! They got a kick out of that.
The fireman event. This is Ariel practicing her spitting skills on a flaming candle.
Couples event: I don't know what you'd call it, but we each had to stand on a bag of crushed ice while holding this balloon between us. My brother and his fiance won with a time of 5+ minutes. We eventually just told them to stop.
Firework time! Watching my kids watch them is probably more exciting than watching them myself.Did you have a fun 4th? What are you traditions? More summer fun posts coming next. . .
How fun!!!
ReplyDeleteWe might just invite ourselves over for your next years 4th!!
Seriously, we would do that :)
Glad it was so fun!