Fourth of July 2009

We spent a very hot but fun Fourth of July long weekend camping out at the property in Shelton. Bryan and Porsche Appleman were along as usual and we were also very happy to have Marina's friend Emily Brown with as as well as Bryan's sister Candy and her husband Steve and Bryan's brother Brad and his wife Esther. The heat was, well, hot. Which made us all a bit sweaty and stinky and lethargic during the middle part of the day. On Friday I ran to Shelton and got the kids squirt guns and ice cream from Wal-Mart. I won't say I hurried... the air conditioning was a welcome relief!

On the Fourth we drove up to Hood Canal in the evening and watched fireworks over the canal. That was very fun too. People sure spend a lot of money to blow things up in the sky.


Lots of pictures below of the weekend. Too many pictures to post them all here so I put them into a slideshow. Here are a couple of my very favorites though:


Dakota wading out to go swimming in order to cool off.

Mircea being her cute self.

Casper being his cute self.

Marina being her cute self.

And Dakota being his cute self. He caught the tiniest little frog and was excited to show it to me.

Marina on the rocks in front of the Hood Canal where we were watching fireworks, wearing all of her glow-bracelets and glow-necklaces.

The girls had a blast with the squirt guns in the lake. I'll never quite understand what the point is of squirting each other when you're already entirely wet, swimming in a lake. But judging from all the screaming and laughing I guess it's fun.

A very patriotic little Casper.

Being the good auntie that she is Candy knows that Casper's favorite thing to do is hang upside down.

The heat melted Emily's Strawberry Malt Balls into a big Malt-Ball-Brick!

Four days together out in the woods without electricity, running water or showers and they are still willing to get this close to each other... now that is LOVE!