Happy 4th of July!

We took full advantage of the long weekend! We originally had planned to go to the Mesa celebration on Friday evening but I was ready for bed at 7:00 pm so we opted to get some ice cream and call it an early night instead. Saturday morning we headed to the pool and met up with Jeremy and Eunice and Aubrey's friend Natalie and her parents Sara and Russell. The girls had a blast swimming together! They went down the little slides a few dozen times. They would walk up the 4 stairs to the slide, slide down and then make their way back over to do it again. Most of the time they were successful in walking without slipping but each girl did have a few mishaps where they ended up going under. We picked them right up and after they rubbed the water out of their eyes they were ready to go! Aubrey loves the pool and having Natalie there to play with is an added bonus!

After the pool we headed home for a nap and then lunch. She was starving and packed away a whole hot dog! We headed over to Don and Laurie's for their annual bbq where Aubrey ate a ton of fruit and almost another whole hot dog! Swimming makes her hungry. She got into the pool with both Brian and Don and worked off some of the hot dogs she ate. She had a blast there exploring the house and listening to all of these strangers chat her up!

Sunday we went to church and then later in the day headed to the Arizona Museum for Youth with Katherine, Isaac, Becky and Dave. It had been awhile since Aubrey and Isaac had played together and they had a great time. They got to color with both markers and colored pencils (which I think was the highlight for Aubrey)! They got to play in the kids area which had some fun swivel chairs and some rubber/foam mats and shapes to climb on. Aubrey liked to watch the other kids dress up in the Charlie Brown costumes that were there but she wanted no part of it! She made a paper baseball hat and a paper shark. She and Isaac played on the Charlie Brown piano and pretended to give advice at Lucy's booth. I snagged these pictures from Isaac's blog as we forgot our camera (thanks Becky and Dave). Aubrey got to people watch and was super distracted by all the people that she had the opportunity to check out!

Today we headed to the zoo with Natalie, Sara and Russell. Yes it was 100 degrees out but we kept the girls well hydrated! They had a blast checking out the animals and running around like crazy! We decided to get a zoo membership while we were there because it will be something great for Aubrey to do, especially when the new baby comes. I asked her if she wanted to get a membership and come with the baby and she told me, "no". Well we bought one anyways! After the zoo we headed home for a nap and lunch and then met up with Jeremy at the pool. Aubrey kept looking for Natalie when we first got there but then understood she wasn't coming and had fun hanging out with me.

It's been a bit of a challenge finding fun activities to do when it is 100 plus degrees out but so far so good. I am still on the hunt for other things to keep us busy that won't cost an arm and a leg. More fun stories to come...