Celebrating the Fourth

July 14, 2010

Usually I celebrate the Fourth of July with all of the kids even when they are scheduled to be with their dad, since he's not much for parties or fireworks. I was planning to pick up the kids early in the afternoon, but Bree got invited to watch fireworks at the stadium with some girlfriends so she opted out of the family thing. I get that, though--a teen's gotta have her space and her friend time. On top of that, though, the kids' dad called and told me Nicholas wasn't feeling well at all and should probably just stay home and get some sleep. Poor kid--no fireworks for him! That left Danielle, who was still all about getting to see some fireworks with us. We picked her up and headed over to the Krepp's house, where we spent the evening with Paul, Carol, David, Carrie, and Freya. Before the fireworks, Danielle and Freya did a little swimming. David and Doug got the light show going while the rest of us ooohed and ahhhhed in admiration. Paul also let me borrow his tripod so that I could play around with some of the settings on my new camera, including the 'fireworks' setting--very cool! It was a lovely, low-key family get-together: )