4th of July 2021

 The 4th of July this year was equally as hot as the entire month before it. It meant no afternoon bike parade this year and as much water as possible! We snapped a quick family picture before heading to Josh and Nicole's for a family bbq and apparently Nic's genes really do run strong in this family ... haha the triplet eye squint!

I tried a new recipe and made watermelon lime slushies to cool us off during the day. They were so yummy! I have the perfect shelf these days to set mine on too. ;)

We brought red, white, and blue water balloons to the family bbq for all the cousins and they had two pools set up for the kids to cool off in. If I hadn't stayed inside most of the time, I would have jumped in there with them! 

Matthew, so proud of his water balloon!

These two were cracking me up the whole night. They either had a snack bowl full of chips they were sharing or scavenging for other people's water bottles to backwash into. haha

Pa gave them all a challenge to see who could pick up the most water balloons and that person would get a dollar. Grams footed the bill. ;)

My poor dad tripped over a park bench backwards that morning so he was hurting pretty bad. I wanted to be out of the heat so him and I hung out on the couch together most of the night! We'd occasionally have visitors who wanted to join the party and the festive glasses came out.

We were grateful to Josh for being the bbq master and feeding us all! You should have seen what he was wearing! I didn't end up with a picture of it but it was a pair of flag shorts overalls with nothing underneath them and a handlebar mustache. hahaha It was a sight to behold!

My sister-in-law pulled out my niece's tooth while we were there and we all started encouraging Liam to let her do the same. He has hung on to this front tooth he hit on my mom's couch back at Christmas time and refuses to let anyone touch it. I had scheduled an appointment to take him to the dentist a few days after the 4th because the adult tooth was coming in front of it but after a night of trying to gain his trust and many attempts, he let his auntie pull it out right before we left! Two days later, the other front tooth was hanging by a thread too so I convinced him while he was distracted watching a movie to let me try the dental floss trick and it popped it right out! The cutest toothless grin and a very busy tooth fairy!  

After we got home from the bbq, we did a few fireworks as a family in front of our driveway.

We let them take turns choosing which firework to hand dad next but Lyla always had a whole lineup in her arms ready to go!

They felt like they were missing out by not getting to help light them so safety dad let them each have a turn ...

He saved the best for last (the dragon one).

Then we had some fun with sparklers! Only one moment of tears at the very end when Lyla touched a hot part while trying to throw it in the bucket of water. Nothing got burned but it was still a stressful moment.

Baby, you're a firework! #29weeks

We let the kids stay up past dark to see a few of the big ones and then everyone (including Nic and I) crashed long before the sounds disappeared into the night sky. Can't believe we'll have another member of our family when we celebrate this holiday next year!