Welcome Abbey & Happy Birthday America

Last Wednesday Aunt Amy and Abbey came to town and we have been having so much fun with them! We have mostly just been playing around the house and swinging on the swingset whenever possible. But we also managed to get out and enjoy the fun 4th of July weekend. We headed out fishing on Friday. Harrison and Abbey are still a bit young to find it much fun. Harrison kept getting tangled in fishing line and Abbey found it a bit windy, so they headed home early while Daddy, PaPa, Grandma and me stayed to catch fish. I caught the first fish of the day and we were really surprised at how big it was! I got another one at the end of the day that was apparently "a monster fish" but it managed to get off the line about halfway out of the water. They tell me everyone has a story about the big one that got away!

This is me and Harrison checking out the worms -- Harrison was not nearly as intrigued as I was:
We had people over for a BBQ and lit off our own display of fireworks on "America's birthday" which was super fun and us kids even got to stay up until 11 at night! Mom, Dad & Amy were equally thrilled when we all slept in past 9 the next morning! (By the way, I also managed to beat my cousin Luke in boxing on the Wii that night -- thanks for being a good sport Luke! Daddy got some video of that too -- everyone seemed to get a lot of laughs watching us, so hopefully we can share with you soon!)
The next day we headed out to the river and had a great day out on the boat....the weather was perfect, us kids were perfect and we even brought the tube out for some fun. Harrison and I both hopped on with Daddy, but started out our first try with just sitting on it. We thought we'd save the fun ride for another day. But Amy and Daddy both got a turn and had a lot of fun. Harrison and I both got in the water to swim with Daddy and everyone was pretty proud of how easily we agreed to that idea!

Here is Daddy on the tube...
And Aunt Amy on the tube...
Look out -- two crazy captains aboard:
Today we took Abbey out for lunch and then headed to the pool for the afternoon. Again, the three of us kids are little fishes in the water....so much fun.

Keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow. Mommy has a doctor's appointment to check on the twins -- but that's actually not the worrisome part. Harrison and I are going to try to get Abbey to come to our daycare with us for the day. We're not sure what Abbey is going to think of that idea, but we're hoping we'll all have a fun day. We'll post more pictures and stories of our adventures later this week!