This is always one of my favorite holidays! We were originally planning to go to the beach, but the weather had other plans. We met the Juergens crew at Harris County Smokehouse for breakfast. I'm not sure if the rain makes us want to eat there or if eating there makes it rain, but those two things seem to happen together a lot! Kind of funny. Luckily they have these funny animal chairs to keep the kids occupied even when they've had enough of sitting still in a restaurant.
We went to Gigi and Poppy's to wait out the rain. We watched the hot dog eating contest and had a lively round of Nertz while the babies napped. The weather cleared up in the late afternoon so we got to play some tennis! Tyler and I played doubles with AJ and Brittany and had a blast. We need to make that happen again soon.
Then of course the kids each got to hit around a bit.
At one point some people nearby started doing some fireworks (why do people do them during the day?? I'll never know) which made Millie and Harvey nervous. Gigi was so good to snuggle with them in the heat while we played. Millie said at one point, "It's fireworking!" which made us all laugh. Also, Max said that fireworks sound like the air tooting! They are hilarious.
We worked up a good sweat and wanted to hop in the pool but the water was pretty cold after all that rain, so the kids were the only brave ones who got in the water. Gigi and Poppy blew up a new pool toy which was quickly named Ella. They had so much fun on that thing.
As they swam, Tyler was mini-golfing nearby with Poppy and Mitchell and the rest of us were watching the Macy's firework show on TV outside. It was such a nice evening.
It finally got dark and the real "fireworking" began, which was the kids' cue to snuggle up on Gigi's bed to watch a movie and spy on the fireworks out the window occasionally. They still don't like the noise.
The picture below was from the Sunday before, feeling patriotic in our red, white, and blue. We are grateful to live in this blessed land!
