the 4th

on this holiday weekend, we did a little of this:


and a LOT, LOT, LOT of that:



{ouchie - the pavement was apparently really hot and lucy's legs feel victim}


she got some extra lovin'


{we are only interested in the toys that obviously don't belong to us.}


And for the ten milliseconds that we were NOT at the pool, we tried our hand at being patriotic,





after throwing the flag on the ground 1,478,912 times and trying to explain the importance of not doing that, we loaded up and moved on out to the house of emma's SECOND favorite identical twins who had invited us over at "POOL HOUR # 1,029" to watch fireworks:


I realized that I wouldn't trade where we live for two hundred million dollars. That there is something truly special about families with four or FIVE children, adopted children are beyond amazing and maybe teenage girls make the best babysitters {following grandparents of course}. OH and firecrackers in close range scare the bejesus out of all my children!


Thankfully, fireworks that are far away do not, if you can stay awake!