Happy belated 4th of July!

I've been trying to post this for several days, but been having problems with the computer. So we'll see what happens.
Our holiday weekend started out with Jesse getting half of Friday off(business was slow for the holiday) which was a nice surprise because we hadn't seen much of him at all this week! When he got home we headed up to spend the evening with his parents. It was extra fun because Jesse's nieces and nephews were visiting that week and the girls don't get to see them very often. It took a little while for them to warm up to the other kids but before too long they were out on the trampoline having a ball. Gabrielle laughed and laughed! It is so good to see them enjoy their cousins like that! I think the girls all spent most of the afternoon/evening on the trampoline while the boys took some time to play with fire. (Jesse had brought some firecrackers and such to play with!) That night we got to do sparklers with them all. Those are always a big hit! (my favorites, too!) Gabrielle and Lyla were invited to stay the night and it was a big ordeal trying to get them to make that decision!! They wanted to stay, they didn't, they wanted to, they didn't. It didn't help that by the time Jesse and I were ready to leave it was past their bedtime so they were just exhausted anyway. They did end up staying and having a great time!

Jesse and I enjoyed Saturday morning just the two of us and Gideon. It was a quiet morning! Then we went back up to get the girls. We spent a couple more hours at the Roussets with Grammy, Poppy, and the cousins. More trampoline fun, a little basketball and some fun toenail painting. The girls had so much fun with those kids! We need to get them together more often.

That evening we had been invited to the neighbors house for a little get together. They have a pool house and all the kids were invited to go swimming. Gabrielle was braver than I'd ever seen! They had provided life vests for the kids and so she was going down the water slide and jumping of the diving board and having a great time! Lyla was just hanging out on the steps until she slipped off of one!!! She had her life vest on so she was only kind of twirling around front to back but gulping water, nonetheless. I yelled at Jesse, (he had his suit on)but he didn't come fast enough for my liking so I had to get in to grab her! Fully dressed. She was ok, but a bit shaken up. I on the other had was very, very shaken up! I made Gabrielle get out of the pool and couldn't go back in until Jesse went with her. (punish the one who was doing fine, right?) Well, they did get back in(and had a great time) but I just couldn't hardly watch anymore. That is why I have no pictures of them in the pool! Well after the pool they did a pinata and made out with gobs of candy(which I have been eating too much of!) Then it was time for the fireworks! Where we live there's a guy who does his own fireworks show off of his property, a cliff right behind our house. It doesn't get much better than that! The girls would have been ok with the regular fireworks, but we were still at the neighbors and he was shooting off a few of his own and they were just too loud for them! So I watched the majority of them from inside with the girls(which is why I have no pictures of that!). Gideon, however, thought it was all pretty cool and wasn't bothered a bit by the noise! He really enjoyed his first 4th of July festivities! I hope you all enjoyed your celebrations, too!