Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Happy Independence Day!


I never understood why people say "Happy 4th of July". It's Independence Day, is it not? You don't go around saying "Happy 25th of December" or "Happy 17th of March". It ranks up there with "Merry Xmas" in my book. The most important part of the holiday is missing!

Now that I got that off my chest, we did have a fantastic Saturday celebrating our independence. We started off the day sleeping in, which is always great. Then we were going to all go on a hike with our Abelmann friends, but sleeping kids ruined the plans. So Ashlyn and the dads went.

Goin' on a hike. When did my little girl get so big?


When they got back from hiking, we had a "tea party" and took some pictures of our patriotic-ness.


In the afternoon, we headed over to the Abelmann's place for some swimming and bbqing. The food was soooo scrumptious.


The little boys: Kai Abelmann, Caden Hong, Jaxon Tang

Jason was so proud of his ginormous burger. And yes, it tasted as good as it looked.

Once it started getting dark, we headed upstairs to get ready for the show. They have a fantastic view of Ala Moana Beach Park where the fireworks were being shot off.


Fireworks pictures just never do them justice, do they?


All in all it was a great day, but I think Ashlyn's favorite part was eating ice-cream in her underwear!

7 comments:

the man said...

Nice post honey. Happy 4th of July. Haha! Just kidding. Happy Indendence Day!

Wendy said...

I agree with your rant, Heather.
That burger would make the perfect midnight snack right about now. What a cute family you have! I'm still trying to convince Jonny to buy plane tickets...

M and M said...

Sounds like you guys had fun! This was like our third Independence Day in a row where we didn't get to see fireworks...oh well...next year!

ricka said...

must be the 12 megapixels in action. ;)

Phannie said...

Fun Day. You all have so much fun. Hawaii looks great. We will need to visit some time.

Your burger looked great too.

nana and atom said...

did you know that you have the cutest kids? it's true.

Jenna said...

That burger is making me very hungry!!! Sounds like you had an awesome day!!