July 4th... Better Late Than Never...

We went to the lake for the 4th of July this year.... they always have two sets of fireworks that we can take the boat to and watch from the water!  Plus, we love to go hang out with Mimi and Pop Pop and the family!!!!!

As usual, there's no shortage of yummy stuff to eat!

Sam said he was NOT going to smile... I think he had bitten his tounge and the popsicle was "medicine."

Relaxing a little between swims... Sam may be a little less vocal (ok, A LOT less vocal) about things, but he loves to be close, and he loves his family!!!

Emma didn't understand why we needed a rest...

Morning iPad time...

Good thing we have a few now!!!!

Can we go swim in the lake now? How about now? Can we now?

On our way to the fireworks... yep.... I've STILL got it!!!! I can put a baby out... but Emma feels she should be held ALL the time!!!!! ;-) So somebody had to do it!!!!

The fireworks from the boat... they weren't great pics - I took the tripod and everything!!! Hahaha!!!! The boat wouldn't sit still!!!!! ;-)

When we got home, we blazed through SIX boxes of sparklers!!!

Obviously, I made them take a picture before they could start, and cooperation was at a minimum...

Jake at 90 mph... Sam, not so sure about the burning sparkler and keeping his distance... he burned his hand pretty bad last year, so he wasn't so into them this year!?

Jake had no problems! He did all the sparklers but just a few!!!

Being the 'mean' parents we are, we made Sam do one just to show him that they won't hurt him!!!

Yep... it looked like we were torturing him!

But he got OK enough to smile for me! I call that a win!

And that was our 4th of July - better late than never!!!! ;-)