Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Independence Day 2011

We spent half of our holiday at Dan Nicholas Park and had a great time. It was hot, hot, hot! But the kids did great. We began by taking a paddle boat out for a ride. Even Kadence had to wear a life jacket. She liked it for about 8 minutes. Just about long enough for her to suck on it and for me to realize she was sucking on mildew. Put that to a stop and she screamed the rest of the way. She and I got dropped off at the dock and Tony and the kids finished out their boating.
After the paddle boats we made our way to the Wilderness section. For 50 cents per person, we got to see bald eagles, turtles, black bears, wolves, foxes, snakes, etc.

Took a train ride next and then headed home.
After naps, the thunderstorms started. We did sparklers on the porch and lined everyone up for the obligatory "kid" picture. My friend Stephanie put this tutorial for firework t-shirts on her blog and over the weekend we made them with the kids.
I love Kadence's expression in this photo. She is like... get me away from these crazies. Or maybe: "please don't hurt me. please don't hurt me."

2 comments:

♥ Karen Luke ♥ said...

Kaleb is getting to be such a big boy!!! And Kadence looks just like you!!!!

ASHENFELTERS said...

So much fun! You'll have to tell me how you made those shirts..looks cool! Caleb looked so much like mitchell with his long hair!!! miss you guys!