4th of July

Explaining to Tristan why we celebrate the 4th of July and what we do to celebrate the special day:

Mom "...and we eat watermelon..."

Dad "...and pumpkin pie!"

Tristan "...No, apple pie dad!"

He's already correcting us!  Pumpkin pie is for fall festivities, right?  Anyways, I don't know how he knew that.  This year we actually got to watch a firework show!  We had a lot of fun.  We spent the day out on the north shore at Vland with the Thomson family, then headed over to Turtle Bay to jump in bounce houses, listen to live music, eat yummy pulled pork sandwiches, watermelon, fried rice, hot dogs and cup cakes (no apple pie), and watched a firework show.  It was a long and fun day, and unfortunately we had to end the last 2 hours of it sitting in the car.  The first hour, waiting to get out of Turtle Bay, and then the next hour was on the road to drive home.  With hundreds of cars trying to leave the resort at the same exact time...it took us an hour to get onto Kam Hwy.  I guess next year we will have to take off during the grand finale of the show.  

 The kids and I ate breakfast, while Christian went for a morning surf in town.  

 Betsy, the patriot, checks out her freshly painted toe nails.  

  Purple lips and shivering.  This boy needs to get some meat on him!

 Like this little girl.  She can last a really long time in the water.  This particular day we swam for almost an hour straight before getting out.  And it was only because a rain cloud was coming.  She wanted to stay in.  

 This is her new thing, cheesy smiles for the camera.  

 Dad spent some time pushing Tristan into waves.  He loved it!

Turtle Bay.

 Family pic.  I'm not sure why both of them have crazy eyes.

While waiting for the firework show to start, we got hit by some rain.  Christian ran to the car to grab our beach umbrellas for cover.  As soon as the rain stopped, (at 7:59), everyone started counting down for the 8:00 show.  The timing was perfect.