Happy 4th of July!

We had a wonderful day today celebrating the 4th! It actually started last night when on a whim we decided to go see a drive-in movies. Before Connor was born, Fred and I made regular trips to the drive-in when the SE 14th Street Drive-In was still open in the late 80's, early 90's. We even spent a July 4th there one time with a few car loads of friends and did a whole tailgate thing.

Connor has never been. Last summer we tried to go, but Connor, the spoiled, multi-plex, stadium seating child that he is, he couldn't seem to wrap his brain around watching a movie outside or in your car.

The movies that were playing this week were WALL-E and Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian. We popped some popcorn, filled a cooler, grapped a Subway sandwich and off we went. Had a blast! I loved WALL-E (Gina, are you out there....I liked it more than I thought I would), but both Connor and I fell asleep half way through Prince Caspian.....we will have to rent it when it comes out on DVD. We didn't get home until almost 2:00 in morning!

Today we had to get ready for our celebration. Our friend Paul, my brother Larry and his friend Craig were coming for over burger and hot dogs. So in the morning, I got the baked beans ready to go in the oven, the potato salad chilling and the fruit cut up and in the fridge. We were in pretty good shape, so Connor and I decided to go the aquatic center for a couple of hours and chill. It was great, the water was refreshing, I had the current issue of More Magazine and my favorite 45 SPF Hawaiian Tropic Suntan Lotion.

After pool time, we came home, showered and finished getting dinner ready. Fred got the burgers and hot dogs on the grill, the side dishes were done and Paul had brought a cherry pie for dessert.

After dinner we dove in and complete cleaned up the kitchen so that wasn't looming in the background, then popped a few Miller Chills and waited until we could do some fireworks. We caught a bit of the U.S. Olympic Swimming trials that are being held in Omaha, but it was such a lovely night, we vacated to the deck.

Before we too we had quite a few of the neighborhood kids hanging out wanting to do sparklers and smoke bombs and my sister brought Chloe and Gunner to watch the display. Gunner gets so excited during fireworks and I was having a blast catching his expressions on camera.

Hope all of you had a great July 4th!