4th Festivities

MorMor and MorFar arrived late Friday night for our 4th of July Visit. Kyle and Owen adore them, and are in heaven with all the playtime they are getting with their grandparents. Braydon and I adore them too, and are in heaven with all the playtime K & O are getting with their grandparents. ;) Since Kyle and Owen came home our tradition for the 4th of July is to have my family here with us in Pennsylvania and, importantly, to not allow my parents to "work" around here (i.e., we try hard to keep them from doing all the cooking, cleaning, yardwork, etc. that they normally insist on doing when they visit). As much as we appreciate them doing all those things (and Lord knows we do appreciate it!!!!!!), we try to keep it to a minimum for the 4th. Sadly this year my sister and her family couldn't make it. But we're trying to do our best to have a good time without them. In addition to all the pool-time and play-time (and exclusively eating out for dinner!!!) that we've been doing... we've also done a couple of really fun outings. On Saturday night we went to Tinicum Park for the annual Riverside Symphonia "Concert Under the Stars" (click here). This is a Bucks County 4th of July tradition. We had never been before. I don't think we'll ever miss it again for as long as we live here. It was awesome!!! Although the lobster salad picnic dinner we had was not well appreciated by K & O (they ate chicken and pasta salad instead), they absolutely loved the music. (and about 4,000 concert-going people absolutely loved watching them love the music). And they had a Love- (Kyle) -Hate (Owen) relationship with the fireworks (we four adults agree, however, that they were truly the best fireworks we've ever seen). The boys had their latest night yet -- were wide awake until about 11pm. It was a good, good time. (and they slept until 9am the next morning -- also a good, good time for Braydon and I who gladly slept in!). Here are a few photos.