Day 15

Happy 4th of July!! We spent the day with our neighbors and had a good time. We went to the YMCA this morning and did some swimming and other fun stuff they had set up there. Then we went to their house for dinner and headed to downtown Portstmouth to watch the fireworks. Well, it turned out to be not so happy by the end of the night after we drove down there, parked and walked to the water, waited for 2 hours to watch the fireworks only for them to be cancelled!! I guess it was because there was some thunder and lightning, or maybe it was the smoke from the fire in the Dismal Swamp? I'm really not sure, but I'm thinking it was the weather. No sooner than we got back in the car did it start pouring rain! But, if the fireworks had started on time they would have been over before the rain! But, whatever - either way, we didn't see any fireworks this 4th of July! I saw on the news channel website that they have only been postponed until tomorrow evening. I wouldn't even want to go and sit in all that traffic again, but aside from that, we are headed to DC tomorrow to pick up my neice, Brooklin, from the airport! YAY! It was a big bummer not to see the fireworks and the kids were so bored (and Haley was hungry - guess she should have eaten her dinner - and Kelly was thirsty, each of which made sure we knew a hundred times or more!) waiting all that time so it was even more of a let down! Mikaela was over sitting in her stroller or on someone's lap and we were on a little hill that headed straight down to a concrete barrier and some really nasty water. It was interesting. I guess every holiday can't be the picture of perfection!

Me and my girls


Brownies - yum!






Someone is over this!


Bored children (and hungry, thirsty and tired!)


Haley trying to entertain Mikaela and keep her from going near the water!