4th of July Weekend

Even though we didn't make to any fireworks displays, we had a great 4th of July weekend. Friday morning we left the house early to meet Omie B and watch the parade in Fredericksburg. Then after grabbing some lunch we went to watch the movie "Wall-E" which was pretty cute. After the movie we headed out to Rheingold for the 42-club 4th of July picnic where we ate lots of BBQ and played dominoes until about 10 pm. Even Ashlyn played and did better than me... I got the boobie prize for not winning any games... it was one of those off nights! John got 2nd place, so we both managed to leave with prizes!

Here's a photo from after the parade:

Here's Ashlyn being a monkey at Rheingold:

Saturday morning we packed up again and went to the creek to hang out with the Heiner's and spend the afternoon swimming, eating and drinking. The water was freezing and the weather was nice and breezy so it was one of those rare summer days when it actually felt better outside of the water than in, but we still enjoyed floating around for quite a while and had a wonderful feast of grilled steak, corn on the cob, baked potatoes, sweet tomatoes and peach cobbler with homemade ice cream afterward. Colten, Dayle, & John did some fishing, too, and caught some pretty good sized catfish. Colten was in heaven!

Sunday we were excited to finally get a little rain shower since all the rain in the area the past week or so had managed to skip passed us. Combined with the rain we got yesterday, we had an inch in the rain gauge, yay!

Sunday also gave John & I our first experience of stressing out over a late child. I know it won't be the last time that happens, but the first came too quickly! Ashlyn's friend invited her to go see Kung Fu Panda with her in Mason Sunday night which was not a problem. We didn't know that her friends older brothers were the ones taking them, but that was OK, too. They wouldn't be back too late. I guess the brothers were working at the movies, because a little later we got a call from one of them that there would be a second showing and they were asked to stay and help for that showing and then clean up after. They would drop Ashlyn off a little after 10. OK, that seemed reasonable. However the closer it got to 10, the more we wished we would have said no. I waited until 10:30 to call him back on his cell, they were almost at the house... whew! We very were glad to see the lights pulling up to the house. I know... this is just the beginning.