4th of July

I couldn't let the opportunity pass to share our 4th of July.  We slept in late.  Translation: till almost 8:00a.m.!  I think Tanner woke up a bit earlier than me because while I was tottering around in the kitchen trying to figure out how to make breakfast, he came waltzing in with a cappuccino from Starbucks.  I never did get breakfast made...

We wanted to give Emily a break from kids and stuff, so we piled the kids in the car, swung by Home Depot for one of those pump sprayer thingy-mums and then found some breakfast tacos.  I tell you what (please imagine a deep Texan drawl at this point), the whole darn city shuts down on the 4th of Jewelye!  We couldn't find an open fast food restaurant to save our lives!  Took us almost 20minutes to find a place to feed the kids.

Well, then Jonny called us and told us that his work was having a 4th of July party, so why not come over and hit the pool and have some hamburgers and hot dogs.  We did.  We had a lot of fun, and I finally got rid of the office pasty white that has become my usual skin tone.  Unfortunately, I had planned hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner, too!  But that was okay, because I had planned a truly northwest experience.  Turkey burgers and chicken hot dogs, so it was different.

We decided to do the rooftop parking again rather than go to the George Bush Museum for the show.  I just didn't feel like fighting the crowds this year.  The girls played with glow sticks and made funny animal shapes with them.  My favorite was the panda face they made.

Speaking of pandas, we got onto the subject of Kung Fu Panda because the girls and I made chocolate ice cream for after the fireworks.  Emily was gushing about how delicious it tasted, and Kate said, "that's because of my secret ingredient!"  Well, of course I had to be a proud Asian mamma at that moment, and as we were talking about it, Tanner started laughing as he remembered the duck's confession about there being no secret ingredient when we were all expecting him to confess that Po was adopted.  Kate said most emphatically, "Well, I knew he was adopted!"  Tanner asked, "Really?  How did you know?"  We all expected her to say something like, "Ducks can't have pandas" instead she said, "Because I saw Kung Fu Panda 2!"

Okay, back to pre-fireworks...So the girls climbed on to the roof of the van with Auntie Emily so that they could have a good view.  When the fireworks began, the biggest racket I've ever heard those girls make assaulted my ears.  Woohoos!  Whoops!  Aaaaaah! Screech!...all sorts of noised and shouts.  They were the loudest group on the rooftop.  I felt like I was in 7th grade again, saying, "I don't really know them."  At least they had fun.