We had Bob, Vanessa and Thomas up for a 4th of July celebration (and to celebrate their move to the El Segundo area — woohoo!). We improvised a delicious barbecue dinner and the kids had a great time playing in the backyard — giraffe pool, zip line, gardening tools, etc. They all ended up filthy, and Finn was bruised after his run-in with the shovel, but it was a good time nonetheless.
No small miracle that no one got hurt at this point in the evening.
Finn complained that the safety “googles” didn’t fit.
Earlier in the day, Finn attempted to put a shovel through his foot. Here he is with the Lightning McQueen ice pack.
At dinner, Thomas took on the watermelon. His technique of indiscriminate chewing of the red, white and green parts followed by spitting out the pulp was unmatched.
After dark we headed over to see the Rose Bowl fireworks display from a bluff above on Armada. I don’t have any good pictures because I was in charge of Ezra and he was a little worried that we were going to get hit by them and he didn’t like the noise. But he didn’t want to leave either, so we wandered around some and caught bits and pieces of the display.
I did get a shot of Ezra atop Uncle Bob’s shoulders while we waited for the display to begin.
