DELTA --- Here we come!!!

****WARNING: TONS OF PHOTOS!!!****

We decided to head to Delta for the fourth of July festivities, since there is not usually a lot going on here in the big city. Speaking for myself, I love small town celebrations much better than the city. Jeff had Friday off work, so we packed up and headed down to Delta Thursday evening, just in time for the girls to have a nap :)

Here is Bella and Ali's sleeping arrangement

Sarah and Ryan were just glad to be going

Here is Grandpa and Grandma Johnson's backyard. Jeff and Ryan playing basketball, a merry-go-round, slide, teeter totter.....

The "Double-Dekker" tree house, a couple swing sets, and a tramp.

The kids have soooooo much fun at Grandpa's.

Grandma and Ali doing what Ali does best

Later that afternoon, we headed down the road to the "res". I spent my free time at this place when I was a youngin', we usually had a boat to water ski with, but the kids had a lot of fun just digging in the sand. They were a bit unsure about it all at first. They are used to the clean swimming pools. Wow have I spoiled my kids. They got the hang of it though.

Like goggles with do anything in water that you can't see past your nose.

"Buddies"

Warming up

On Saturday, we went in town and watched the parade. Sorry, no pictures of the beautiful floats (ha, ha, ha) if you call a pre-demolition derby car beautiful. However, there was a ton of candy, isn't that what you go to a parade for anyway?

In the afternoon, the kids floated down the ditch back to my parents home. This is another one of the favorite activities.

Linsey brought some science experiments/fireworks for us to enjoy. She put mentos in a pop bottle. Very cool!!!

She put the smoke bombs inside this bucket and the kids would beat the back of it and the smoke would come out as they tapped the buckets.

How can you end a night of fireworks without the sparklers?????

On our drive home we saw this cool double rainbow.

Sunday morning we went to the baby blessing of our cute little nephew, Nathan Andrew Liddle.

Oh, how cute is he. I didn't have my camera yesterday, so these are a few weeks ago when we went over to their home to see him for the first time.

We had a really fun time this holiday weekend and have made many memories. We LOVE being with our families!