A Kansas Holiday

We traveled to Lawrence for the 4th of July holiday weekend. We had very lofty plans for spending as much time as possible sitting on my mom's deck, catching up with friends and family and watching Amelia enjoy having a yard to run around in. The weather had different plans for the weekend.... We did get beautiful weather Friday night and I had a great time eating Mexican food and drinking margaritas with my Kansas girls. Didn't manage to get any pictures though....

Due to the inclement weather we had to get creative over how to spend our holiday weekend. Amelia, Auntie M and Emmie mastered somersaults.

Instead of dining al fresco every night we spent QT hanging out in the kitchen. Amelia even had her first corn on the cob inside while watching the rain.

The weather meant we spent more time on the couch than I would like to admit. Here we are with our evening cocktails; beer for dad, wine for mom and a little juice for Amelia.

The rain held off on the morning of the 4th which allowed us to go visit the Meyer's new home and join in their lake's celebration. Amelia and Jack shared an entire bag of Goldfish crackers. From the looks of this picture Amelia wasn't giving Jack his share of the bag. (check out the view from the Meyer's front porch!)

On the evening of the 4th the rain stopped just long enough for us to light a few sparklers and fountains and for Auntie M to teach Amelia how to play with fire.

After checking and rechecking the radar we finally accepted that we weren't going to get a dry 4th. Mark introduced Amelia to running in the rain. The girl loved it and made good use of her signing skills by asking "more, more" everytime they got back to the garage.

And of course it was GranAnn who was waiting with a towel to dry off Miss Amelia.