Fourth of July

We had an awesome 4th, from start to finish!

 All decked out in our red, white, and blue for our ward's Pancake breakfast.

 One of Lexi's friends, Abby had the same dress on so we had to get a picture.  I love their faces..."Mom, are you really making me do this?!"

 The best picture of Lexi all day!

 Grandpa helped her cruise the park on her scooter.

 Libby was part of a serious gang of biker-kids!

 Hilarious!  When we got home, I had left some watermelon rinds on the patio for Piggy to eat and while I was getting lunch ready for our bike ride, Lexi sat down and joined Piggy, dining on his already munched rinds.  How gross!  Once she started, though, I figured, eh, why not? and she continued there happily munching for quite some time.

 We rode our bikes down to Doheny (Libby almost made it the whole way!) and joined the masses for a great day at the beach.  Sandcastles...

 splashing in the water...

 playing in the sand...

 and more sandcastles!  Three generations of Macbeth masterminds were behind this one (and managed to keep Lexi at bay!).

 Then it was a BBQ at my parents' house and fireworks at the lake.  Lexi showing off some of her glow stick bracelets.

 Summer was the designated Lexi-chaser and she did GREAT!  Thanks, Sum. 

(The picture says it all for how attentive Lexi is to just about anything.)

 Brad and Libby joined the "big kids" on the slope.

 Laguna Niguel put on a pretty great show this year!

 Glow stick mustaches are cool!

Back to the house for dessert and not to bed till 11:00.  Wow, this is getting to be a trend...yikes!

Hooray for the greatest country on earth - I am so proud to be an American and love celebrating my country!