July 4th Weekend

Friday night Grandma, Sydney and I started off the July 4th holiday watching the fireworks at the Altadena Country Club-they were great. When the first one went off Sydney said in her deep voice "They are loud like fortissimo!" I thought that was pretty funny.

We spent our first night camping at Casper Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano. To say that the kids liked it would be an understatement. For mom, I was paranoid about rattlesnakes so I was "on edge" when they were playing in the campsite and when it came time to go to sleep Brooke would have none of it so that was a bit frustrating, other than that it was great! David took the kids to the river and as I was making dinner in the motorhome (I hate and will never use the word camper, David calls it the RV) I was feeling like a good mom.

On the 4th we went to Calafia beach in San Clemente and had a great time with grandma, the Krueger's and the Sauer's. David spent a bit of time playing in the ocean with and without Sydney. I spent a bit of time managing a very exhausted Brooke (remember she didn't sleep so well the night before), holding baby Abigail and playing with all the kids. It was a very fun day. Sydney and I finished off the weekend watching fireworks again, this time at Aunt Becca's (who was staying at Aunt Rachel's). Great weekend with lots of family fun!!!