4th of July

It was nice to have a holiday in the middle of the week, except for having to go back to work the next day! We tried to go to our local water park in the morning, but they weren't taking season passes so we went swimming at Don's community pool instead. Emily still had a fabulous time. She is getting really good at swimming about 7-10 feet by herself (propelled mostly by kicking) and swam back and forth between mom and dad for about an hour. It's nice to have a kid that loves the water.

Later on we had a family get-together with the Boam family out at Don's house. We just barbecued hamburgers and hotdogs and hung out before heading over to the park to see the fireworks. Emily was honestly more interested in the poppers that you throw on the ground to make a noise than the big ones up in the sky. But we'd try to get her to tell us the colors so she would watch them, and her phrase of the evening was "I can't believe it!" She seems to really like exclamations these days! It was a fun and relaxing day.