July 4th Weekend

Aunt Natty visited from Pittsburgh where she is studying Serbian for six weeks before heading to Montenegro before coming home and moving to Kansas for grad school. Crazy traveler, that one. We got to spend time and do summery things in the heat wave. Like eat ice cream.

And sit in the conditioned air of ladies' undergarments whilst Natty tried things on.
We also went to the beach.



Aleks wanted to be buried.
I helped with the digging.
Then Bastian wanted to be buried. I like this series of Aleks in the background.



And Natalie buried herself, so Bastian sat on her.
Didn't the founding fathers invent s'mores? I think so.
We don't like going to fireworks displays because we hate crowds and mosquitoes. I'm sure the kids would love them, but we're mean parents who don't wanna go there. So. We play with small explosives at home with the neighbors.