4th of July

We had a great 4th of July this year!  We enjoyed going to Chesapeake City Park for the Celebrate Freedom festival July 3rd to play, listen to music, and watch fireworks.  On the 4th we headed to the beach!  We spent the entire day at the beach under our new canopy, building in the sand, but mostly swimming in the warm ocean water.  Brooke and Alex love being in the water and Brooke learned to drive through the waves now that she is swimming on her own.  Late afternoon we drove home and both cuties fell asleep.  After we let them nap at home, I made dinner and then we had a family movie night since they wouldn’t be ready for bed after napping at 5pm.  We really enjoyed being together as a family!

 

S’mores and Outdoors Camp

Brooke and Alex had their last summer camp this week: S’mores and Outdoors Camp.  They had a lot of fun playing with outdoor things like tents and kayaks and having pretend fires and horse rides.  They went on a bear hunt and at the end of the week they had time with some outdoor animals!

Cooking Dinner

I sure do have some cute helpers to cook dinner!

Water Squirters

The kiddos got some new water squirters and AJ told them to try them out since he was hot from mowing the lawn!

Beach Day with Oma

Oma did such a wonderful job taking care of Brooke and Alex while we celebrated our 10 year anniversary in NYC.  We got home late Saturday night and Sunday we all went to beach all day long with Oma.  The kids had a great time playing in the sand with her and knocking down her sand castles.  After lunch at the beach and being there for five and a half hours we washed up and headed to Pungo Pizza for dinner on the way home.  Monday the kids and I got to play with her all morning before we drove to the airport.  They had a great time with Oma!