Extended Weekend Activities

Friday was the last day of swim lessons. (This session anyway.) Little Lion is doing so well.

Aren't those some great kicks!

Daddy Lion was off work, so he was able to join us! One proud Daddy he was. Of course Little Pumpkin was there to cheer on brother. She has done so well at being patient with the lessons ~ really has blown me away considering the first day was a nightmare!

He jumped off the diving board and did his backstroke ALL the way to the shallow end! What a trooper ~ not sure I could do that!

Afterwards, we hit the firework stand! Love the fourth of July in TX! We tried out our day parachutes right away!

The were a hit. The kids are so compliant for posing ~ just not smiling! *wink*

Friday evening Lolly and Pop watched the kids overnight so we were able to have much needed and long time coming date night! Of course the kids were thrilled:

The awesome hot wheels track complete with a curve!

The curve made the cars come right back to them! LAZY Americans! *wink*

They even set it back up for us on Saturday to show us the action; I must admit it was really fun!

Short story behind this pic! Pop has those large magnets that the kids love to play with. There are come that are spheres; some that our oblong in shape; and some that are little cylinders. Little Lion put the 2 spheres on top of the 2 cylinders and called it a ice cream cone. "Me too" is Little Pumpkins motto! She walked around with those magnets forever pretending to lick her ice cream cone! Seriously, it's the simple things in life!!!

Our traditional IHOP breakfast on the fourth and a night of fireworks, potluck and only a small fire! We had a great fourth ~ somehow I managed to not get a family pic or even a picture of fireworks! Oh well, we were having too much fun making memories! Hope you did too!