4th of July weekend

4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. I don't even know why, I have always loved the summer weather, the carnivals, the food, the parties, the fireworks. We were sad at the beginning of the weekend because we didn't have many plans, but it turned out being a super fun weekend. We started out on Tara's fiance's boat, he took all of the kids out in Dana Point Harbor and then out on the ocean, fishing!

The kids with "uncle" Mike.
Parker, Tara, and Monica.

Bennett and Mike, so cute! Buzz boys.

Grayson wants to be like his cousin Parker.

Parker caught two small fish, pretty cool. I was up front meditating from sea sickness!!! I didn't think we were going out of the harbor or I may have stayed on the dock!

Saturday we went to the ward pancake breakfast and then headed down to the beach, the weather was pretty bad all weekend, but the kids had fun. Then on our way home we got a call from the Judds so we headed to their place to swim, and ended up at Chick-fil-a for dinner....fun day.

On 4th of July our neighborhood had a bike parade, so we decorated our bikes and got ready for the fun. This is Grayson's new smile for pictures, it sort of bugs!

Bennett was worried that he had too many decorations for a boy!

Ohm and Bennett, buddies. They lead the parade, they are the big kids in the neighborhood!

After the parade I had a sugar cookie decorating table set up for the kids, they all thought it was super cool! Too bad I ended up with two dozen at my house that I ate most of!

After church we had the Judds over for a BBQ and then we went down to the town center for fireworks.

The kids made fruit shish kabobs, they were yummy.

Of course Bennett made his with only strawberries and marshmallows.

Grayson was a little more willing to eat other fruits!

Then we decorated more cookies!

We watched the fireworks from our car, and they were surprisingly good.

Fun weekend, hopefully next year it will be sunny and even more action packed!