4th of July, part two

Day two. It was a good thing nothing was on the agenda for Saturday morning, so these night owl children could sleep in. I don't think anyone stirred, me included, prior to 10:00 a.m.

The Tanners have a trampoline, which my kids, especially Lauren adored. The kids managed to talk Darrin into a game where they lay on the trampoline and he jumps on it, bouncing them in the air.


While the others were being bounced on the trampoline, Katie took the opportunity to catch a few rays and work on her tan.

Next it was on to Judge Hoff's pool. (Although technically now I don't practice law in front of her I am allowed to call her Renae) She was brave and invited all 8 of us out to her pool for the afternoon.

Ciarran came along too, so I guess that made 9 of us. Did I mention Renae is brave to agree to our largeness??!! The kids were so happy to see Ciarran and spend some time with one of their favorite aunts.

We even got Scott, Darrin's 17 year old son, to join us! (FYI, Katie LOVES Scott. He both looks and acts a lot like uncle Matt and a couple of times during the weekend she called him uncle Matt.)

After swimming Darrin and I dropped the kids off at home and headed to the grocery store with Katie to pick up a few things. While at the grocery store Katie spotted a can of olives and would not leave until we agreed to purchase the olives so she could eat them for dinner. (Did I mention she is three??) Katie did not so much want to eat the olives, as she wanted to put them on her fingers.

Which of course meant that all the other kids soon had olive covered fingers....

10 olives on her fingers, and none of those 10 ended up in her mouth. I think she pawned them off on Darrin.....

Once darkness was upon us, the firework king, ie Mark, required a full display of pyrotechnic power.

Here is Lauren in her best Lady Liberty impersonation.

Sparklers were of course a big hit.

It was again another late night. This time it was the boys who got to sleep in the tent in the family room with the girls having a slumber party in Shelby's room. (It was rough they had to down size from the nice big flat screen TV to the lap top computer screen to watch movies. And believe me we heard about it...)