4th of July

We were talking about camping, and then we didn't go. Todd had a few things he wanted to take care of on his day off. So we stayed home. And Friday morning we took care of errands and cleaned house. We worked in the garden for a while. The kids played in the mud pit that their garden became as we watered it. We gave Garth, my brother, his birthday present a week early so we could play with it. He got a game called boom blox. And we played a lot that weekend. And we hung out with my mom. We meant to put a baby blanket on the frames to quilt, but we didn't do that much work. We went through our games at Grandma Tingey's house. We got a lot done for feeling like we played most of the weekend. We went to a picknik at my Aunt Cindy's house. The girls kept trying to figure out how to slip and slide. It was fun to watch. Then my mom took Kaylyn home--who wanted to be held the whole time. She got scared from a firework that went off near by. She has been klingy since. But the rest of us went down to Columbia River Park. I wanted to get closer to the fireworks, but Todd didn't want to deal with the traffic. So we ended up on the dock. We could see both Columbia River's firework show and the Trak's show. We weren't close enough for my taste, but Todd thought we were plenty close. It was fun to sit on the dock. We made friends with the couple next to us. Karla spent more time talking with them than she did watching the fireworks. Although she enjoyed those too. Karla is my social butterfly and makes friends everywhere she goes. In her birth blessing it says that she will be surrounded by love--I now wonder if that is because she creates it where ever she is. We also had a drunk guy who joined us. Todd helped him park his boat--and he was very grateful. He was funny. Then it was home again. We spent a quiet Sunday at home. All in all, it was a nice holiday. But after packing the baby, the diaper bag, and the girls--I left the camera again. Give me time to adjust to all I need to pack around.