perfection..(with only 2 minor blips)

the 4th of july. my favorite holiday. and this year didnt disappoint. sheer perfection. ya know the feeling when you get off a boat and you still feel like youre swaying? well, between the rocking of my swing, and the movement of the water under the dock off the beach....im still swaying!

we have the best neighbors. on all on sides of us. well...this weekend we spent with tom and claudia. and it was even more special because diane came back to spend the holiday with us. (yes...we know...she only moved away a week ago!) anyway....we just had the best time, and the weather couldnt have been more perfect. on thursday night, we went to the fireworks at their country club. it was amaaaazing! popcorn, ice cream, glow sticks ... a big band playing. hayden was having the best time. that is...until the fireworks started. (minor blip #1.) why on earth i ever thought my 3 year old would enjoy the spectacle of fireworks....im not really sure. what the hell was i thinking? he had seen them in the past. but these were different. we were on the golf course...basically right underneath them. ashes were falling on us. it sounded like we were in the middle of a war zone. only much prettier! anyway....hayden freaked out and dan had to run him back to the car while hayden kept saying, "theyre gonna hurt me daddie." in all honesty...they were really loud and even we were a little shell shocked. i cant even believe we took him to see them. the good news is that we werent the only parents who get the "dumb-ass" award, because a bunch of other parents were also toting their crying kids away. who knows...maybe theyll all wind up in therapy together some day!

on friday we just hung out and did nothing but relax outside. i put in a good amount of time on the swing. the swing was the best fathers day present i ever got for dan! it couldnt have been more perfect! that night we had a bonfire with tom and claudia. s'mores, fire and good friends...not bad! on saturday we kept the relaxation theme going at our pool. but the relaxation didnt roll over into the evening. we went out for dinner with haydens girlfriend, lexi...and her parents. (minor blip #2.) lets just say the evening ended abruptly with two screaming kids and a restaurant full of completely silent people staring at us as i apologized to the whole restaurant and said id offer to pay for their dinners if i could afford it. and oh yeah...my kid, decided to pee in his pants and refuse to wear them after. so lets keep in mind that he was in the restaurant with a diaper and t-shirt. keep that visual going...as we walked down the street in birmingham with my half naked son. diane just explained to people that we were on our way back to the trailer park.

we ended the perfect weekend by going back to pine lake country club with tom and claudia for lunch and hanging out at the beach. hayden met a friend and they made sand castles for hours and hours.  in true fashion of following in his mommies footsteps...he got the other kid to keep fetching the water for his moat! and he was very proud of all of the "turrets" on the sand castle. it really was perfect. the only problem...was that diane had to leave a few hours later to go back to LA. (oops......i guess there were 3 minor blips!)