I love the 4th! Watermelon, BBQ, fireworks... what's not to love? It was always fun at my house growing up since my sister and mom had birthdays that week... so there was always plenty of cake too! Luckily, Siena was born on the 2nd (same as my sister) so we can continue the tradition of partying all week.
This year on the 4th we were busy all day long. Eric and I started the day off by getting in some training for our upcoming triathlon. Eric did a full sprint tri with some friends in the neighborhood and I did 2/3 (just bike and run). Hopefully we'll be ready in a few weeks!
Later we took the kids and Berkeley on a hot, hot walk. There's a little trail near our house that leads to a stream where Berkeley loves to jump in and get wet. He's getting a little old and frail, so this time he kind of waddled and and just sat down to cool off in the water. The stream was pretty high from all of the rain we got with Tropical Storm Debby. If it weren't for so many bugs and the HEAT, we could've stayed out there all day!
In the afternoon, our neighborhood 4th of July party was supposed to start around 4pm... but it was raining... pretty typical for Florida summer days. So several families came over to our house instead to wait out the rain and start eating BBQ! At one point we decided to count how many kids were running around... 13! We were pretty excited when the rain stopped and we could go outside to join the rest of our neighbors! It actually worked out pretty well because I was able to get Lyla and Zoey fed and in bed before we went out (the party was at our next door neighbor's house so we were in our shared backyard all night). We ate more, drank more, played cornhole, and watched fireworks over our pond. We're lucky to have friends who put a lot of money and time into the fireworks show... they do a professional job!
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