We had a pretty busy 4th of July weekend. On Friday we got up bright and early to get our WalMart shopping out of the way. Then I was finishing up the cake for the clickshops.com open house. The cake turned out well. I forgot to take pictures, but luckily my mom had her camera with her, so I'll get copies. On Friday afternoon Gary stayed home with Evan and I went to Garfield Bay with Mom, Kylie, William and Garrett and then Sherry, Doug, Christian, Kassidy and Grace.
On Saturday we spent the morning at home. We didn't go to any of the breakfasts for parades, which was fine with me. Maybe next year we'll take Evan to the parade. We spent a few hours at Garfield Bay in the afternoon. Evan loves the water and will stay in no matter how cold he gets. We had a floaty that he can ride in, but he is still half in the water, so we bought a little raft that he can be in the keeps him out of the water. He really liked that too. I was holding him with his life jacket on and let me let go and he floated by himself several times. He just may be swimming this year. On the way to the lake we had to stop at the gas station. We had told him we were going swimming at the lake. As I was starting the Jeep up to leave the station, he started saying, no, no, no... I told him, we have to go to the lake to go swimming. He said, the lakes right there! We were at the gas station on the end of the bridge, so sure enough, the lake was right there. It didn't make sense to Evan that we should then drive for 20 more minutes to go to the same lake. :)
Saturday night we had a bbq at Doug and Sharon's house. It was perfect. The temperature was in the 90's, but in the shade and with a slight wind, it was perfectly comfortable. It was entertaining watching everyone playing and visiting. We didn't go to any fireworks on Saturday night. We did watch the Macy's fireworks on TV. I know, not the same thing, but still pretty amazing.
Tonight we went to a fireworks show courtesy of Spencer, Greg and Justin. They purchased some cool fireworks and we all sat and watched them. We even got pop corn and carmel corn. Evan loved it! I almost went without Gary and Evan because it was way past Evan's bed time, but I'm so glad they came. At one point Evan even handed off his blue ball to Gary so he had both hands free to clap. It was pretty cute. Evan kept naming off the colors he saw and was just mesmerized the whole time. The grand finale was a firework called Mayan Gold. Evan repeated it several times as it was going off and also kept saying Mayan Gold on the way home. So, now you know if Evan says Mayan Gold, he is talking about fireworks. Next year we'll have to buy some fireworks too to add to the show.
One last thing. Tonight Evan has been counting and this is what he says...one, two, three, four, eight, nine, seven, twelve, eighteen! :)
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