We always ring in the 4th around here with a massive amount of pork. As my friend Matt Hodges likes to quote often, "let it rain pork up in here!"
Daddy grilled Boston Butts and ribs. Mama made her famous potato salad and we all ate ourselves into a food coma.
Since we've had so many babies born in the last couple months, we decided to postpone our family get together until Labor Day this year. Hence, no smuggled fireworks from South Carolina or Florida. Just lame Georgia duds..
Daddy promised Mama he'd have the swimming pool finished by the 4th. He cut it AWFULLY close, but with a little help from the grand-daughters, he made it just in time!
Ali Grace helped shuck the last of the corn. She'd much rather be doing garden work than operating heavy machinery. That's Addie's area of expertise. One day she will either be a ballerina or a backhoe operator. Not sure which.
As they started to pump water into the pool, Pete let Ali, Addie and Rubi put their toes in. They were so excited!
These girls are definitely water bugs!
The really awesome thing about a pool is that it completely wears kids out! I am an anti-tv, anti-video game, anti-indoors kinda Mama during the summer. Unless your hair is melting off your head, you gotta put on some sunscreen, put on some bugspray and get outside and do something! Luckily with the swimming pool, that's easy to do.
Between spending the day with BOTH sets of grandparents, and swimming non stop for hours, the kiddos were sufficiently worn out.
I hope everyone had a fantastic Independence Day!
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