4th of July Weekend

We forgot the charger to our camera over the weekend so sadly we do not have any photos to share.  :( 

We had a great 4th of July weekend in VT.  Aaron got to "drive the car" from the church to the lake house (like Mommy and all his uncles and aunt did growing up!) so he was in HEAVEN!  Uncle No-no and Katie were already at the lake when we arrived which thrilled Aaron to no end!  Ace and GG arrived later and we had a great evening on the lake. 
On Saturday we took the boat out and spent a lot of time in the sun.  No-no had some friends over and Aaron dazzled them with his Ice Cream game.  He asks you what flavor ice cream you'd like, pretends to scoop it into a cone, hands it to you and says "go ahead, take a taste".  Once you pretend to take a taste he shouts "it's hair ice cream!" or "it's garbage can ice cream".  He cracks up while you pretend to choke on the disgusting ice cream flavor... it's very fun!  His "flavors" range from ear wax to poop and are all disgusting!  He is a boy... through and through! 

Sunday was great... Brad ran a 5K in Manchester, VT and shaved 2 minutes off his last race time!  Yay!!!  We stopped at a farmers market/art in the park on the way home and picked up a few goodies for 4th of July dinner.  The Avalon Beach neighbors (Casella's, Brown's, Louras' and Web's) gathered for appetizers and dinner on our deck around 6pm.  It was great!  I made biscuits for strawberry shortcake for dessert... yum!  We all got in our respective boats and drove out to the Crystal Beach area of the lake to watch the Bomoseen Association fire works... Aaron loved them and kept saying "wow - they're so beautiful".  He konked out in my arms on the ride back to the house and didn't budge when we changed him into his jammies and put him to bed. 

It was hard for me to drive off on Monday afternoon but the drive to Boston was easy and I didn't run into any of the predicted traffic!  I was home by 7:30 and in bed by 9... ahhhh.