Fourth of July Weekend

Hope you all had a wonderful extended weekend for Independence Day.  

We filled our time these past few days with a multitude of activities:

1.  Feeding the geese at Swinney Park.  A favorite past time since the park is so close to our house.  A word of caution, don't try to feed mama geese out of your hand like Miss W did here.  She got nipped by the protective mother.  Don't worry, it wasn't serious.

2.  Swimming, feeding the fish, and sunning at Metea County Park.

Enjoying nature at Metea.

I would love to own property like this one day.  I can dream, right?

3.  Lighting off piles of fireworks at my mother-in-law's house.

Playing in her large yard.

Enjoying delicious treats.

(A better daylight pic of my fabulous cupcake toppers, that I won in a blogger contest from one of my old college roomies!  She is so crafty!  Also notice that we made red white and blue cupcakes:)

Breaking open a candy-filled pinata.

and socializing with family.

On our drive home from Miami, Ryan and I stopped at a fireworks store in Tennessee.  My husband was like a kid in a candy store.  It was hilarious.  We managed to get a huge number of fireworks to entertain the entire family.

3.  And, finally, venturing to Fort Wayne's new boundless playground.

Definitely a very cool place.  If you can make her out, Little M is under that stream of water!

We were impressed.

Aside from all this, we also managed to go to a TinCaps baseball game on the evening of the 4th to enjoy the game and watch a very impressive fireworks display at the end.  I must admit though, I am fireworked-out for a while.  I think I experienced a bit of fireworks overload and need a break.  Good thing I have a year to recover.  



We seem to have packed a lot into the last few days.  Now, a time for rest.  Ha.