Fireflies & Fireworks

We had a very fun and busy 4th of July weekend. We spent Saturday at Lost Island Water Park in Waterloo. The girls had a blast! Maya enjoyed the kiddie areas and the Lazy River, while Maryn and Makenna preferred some of the bigger slides. Makenna got quite good at a rope you can climb across the water and Maryn went crazy on the littler slides in the kiddie areas. Everyone also enjoyed the wave pool.

Our fun continued that weekend.... we had dinner with Poppie and Peepie, visited Grandma Lu, I visited some friends, lunch and swimming in the pond with Budkes, neighborhood 4th of July parade, catching some fireflies and of course fireworks. The busy long weekend ended with the four of us (Maya was in bed) sitting on the counter eating popcorn after fireworks. Maryn said that was her favorite part of the weekend :) Silly kid!



Happy kids! Makenna and Maryn got to stay up late enough for it to get dark so they could catch lightning bugs. Our back yard and park look like a Christmas light display at night with all the lightning bugs!!!


She got one! My girls are so much nicer to the bugs than I was as a kid.... did anyone else dismember them to make glowing jewelry for themselves???


Maryn catching lightning bugs in the back yard


Makenna trying to get one... they were both pretty dramatic about it :) Imagine that!


Makenna and Maryn... Mommy made us stop running around in our jammies so she could take our picture :(


Sisters :)


Watching fireworks from the front porch!!! We live in a great location... every year we can see numerous fireworks displays from our front yard! It's not up close and personal, but at least we avoid the traffic this way :)