Fourth of July weekend

Our fourth of July weekend was quite eventful!! We were able to have daddy for a FOUR DAY weekend! We anxiously waited in the car for him to be released. After we picked him up we drove to the Virginia Beach Aquarium. It was a lot of fun! They had Different kinds of Crabs and a Sting Ray tank, we saw some pretty huge sea turtles and best of all was the Sharks!! The sting ray tank was pretty cool...Kenidi was not all that thrilled about touching them but Kaden, Adam, and I were all over the idea, the only thing I didn't like was smelling like a fish after having my hand in the water. The Aquarium had two buildings that were connected by a nature trail which was very wooded, it was a beautiful walk to the other side. We had so much fun that we ended up staying till they closed.

On Saturday we decided to go to the Yorktown beach, it is only 13 miles from where we live so we wanted to check it out. I kinda like it better than Virginia beach. It is much less crowded and way closer. The kids had a lot of fun digging a big pit with daddy. Britynn even got her feet in the water. Poor Kaden was so tired, he had skipped his nap almost everyday that week. He looked so sleepy in the pictures of him at the beach, the sun was so bright that he could hardly keep his eyes open.

Sunday we invited a nice couple from our ward over for dinner. We didn't go to a firework show because they don't allow fireworks in Newport News so instead we made our own firework show. We didn't go all out though, I specifically told Adam that we could only spend 15$ on fireworks. Poor Adam he loves fireworks and I know he would have spent way more if it wasn't for me, I knew that we just couldn't justify spending a lot of money though. I was so bummed that none of the pictures turned out. We don't have a camera (since Kaden broke it) so we used our camcorder but the camera on the camcorder doesn't have a flash, so all of the pics are blurred. It takes great pics during the day though. We had so much fun with daddy that weekend and were sad to take him back on Monday.

Britynn spent most of the time at the beach sleeping in
the stroller. This is the picture I took of just after she woke up.

Little sleepy eyes

Britynn's little feet prints

We had to make our own fun since there weren't any waves

Daddy cooking Sunday dinner with the kids

Kaden is gonna turn into a pyro just like his daddy