I love our family tradition of celebrating the 4th of July at Mimmies. Since she passed last May, it's not been the same. But I KNOW without a doubt that she would want this tradition to continue and sitting on the bluff, watching the fireworks being shot from a barge right below, has spoiled us forever. There is no place we'd rather be!
This year was a little soggy. Actually, that is a understatement. It poured most of the 24 hours we were there. So we did a few things inside like red, white and blue chocolate covered strawberries, and Trace logged in way too many hours on the Wii.
Rick worked his magic on Keatyn and eventually won her heart. His new nickname is "the candyman."
The lure of the pool was just too tempting. So even in the rain, they swam!
This was the pool poopy face I saw THREE times!!
Seriously? I only brought 3 swim diapers, and no sooner did her little toesies hit the water, she'd start poopin. One particularly constipated cousin nearly jumped in to see if the magic would work on her. :)
Once we knew she was good and cleaned out, it became that kind of party. ;)
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After hours of rain, we looked out and saw this beautiful rainbow over the bridge right before sunset.
Thank you Bonnie for the solo cup sparkler idea! Who knew there were so many uses for a red solo cup?
We simply can not take a family photo with everyone looking at the camera...
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Exhaustion had set in...
It was kinda strange being bundled up under blankets on the 4th of July.
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