Independence Day was a different for us this year. We usually participate in the Prestonwood Forest bicycle parade, but we've since moved from Prestonwood. So we spent the day at the lake with Mike and Christy!
What a fun-filled day! We started out early that morning with a boat ride.
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| it was choppy water and I got splashed a lot |
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| Captain Jack |
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| Captain Arden |
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| she's looking way too old. |
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| she almost looks like a brooding teenager here. |
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| my two pretties |
After the boat trip, the kids jumped in Papa Mike and Gigi's pool while Brian cooked dinner on the outdoor grill. Papa Mike and Gigi were kind enough to watch the kids and swim with them while I snuck off for a little nap!
Before dinner, all the kids opened their birthday presents from PM and Gigi. (They'd had Arden and Jack's presents for a while, but hadn't had the opportunity to give them. Halle's birthday is around the corner, so the 4ofJ was a great day to give them all at once.)
Jack's main present was a fishing pole!
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| Papa Mike teaching Jack how to cast his pole and reel it back in. (As I type this Jack is doing the very same thing in our pool. It is currently his favorite thing to do!) |
After dinner we headed back down to the dock to do a little fishing. This was Jack's first time to fish. All of my kids love fishing, so we had fun!
Arden caught a catfish!
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| this is Arden's face when the catfish got too close. She likes catching them, but she doesn't like touching them. I don't blame her. |
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| This is Jack's very first fish! He ended up catching two fish that evening. The entire next week, he would tell anyone that would listen, "I got two fishes!" |
It got dark while we were fishing that evening, so we watched the lake fireworks right from the dock. It was perfect because Jack and Arden are both scared of fireworks. They were far enough away from us that we couldn't hear them, but close enough to see!
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| Halle continued fishing while watching the fireworks. |
It was such a great day! The kids were so tired that they both fell asleep as soon as we left Papa Mike and Gigi's driveway.
The pic of Arden and Brian at the wheel made me pause because at first I thought it was Hazel! And I usually don't think Hazel and Arden look anything alike!
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