We kicked off the long weekend on Friday night when Nathan and I went to our local baseball stadium to watch Avon's baseball team in action. Nathan's Father's Day gift to me was a couple of tickets to the Lake Erie Crushers' baseball game. The tickets were only 3 rows from the field, so had some great views of the pitchers warm ups! Nathan was so well behaved for the 3 hour duration of the game, and we were rewarded with a phenomenal fireworks show at the end! During the show Nathan exclaimed, "This is the best night ever!!!!" :)
On Saturday, we were due to go on a bike ride with the some people form the church, but we had to cancel since Josh was running a low grade fever, and Nathan and I only got home around 11:30pm the night before, so we let Nathan sleep in a bit. Nathan and I had another outing planned for the afternoon, and while Liesel and Josh had their nap, we headed to the movies to watch Toy Story 3D. This was a great, feel good, family movie that we throughly enjoyed and we would definitely recommend going to see it! After the movie, we meandered through a carnival that had come into town for the Fourth of July weekend! It was at this carnival that I introduced Nathan to his first taste of cotton candy (aka candy floss)! He absolutely loved it! He obviously inherited the sweet tooth gene from his father!
The Fourth of July: Liesel and I were Nathan's Sunday School class teachers for the first service. There were only five boys there, and it worked out really well. Even the finger painting craft went off smoothly without any incidents or accidents! The weather was hot, and Nathan, Liesel and I all had some fun in the pool. Nathan's confidence improved significantly in the aqua and sub-aqua realms after I introduced him to my eye goggles! He is enjoying the pool and his newfound ability to explore the "depths"!
Liesel prepared a delicious roast chicken, and homemade French Silk Chocolate Pie for dinner! Soon after dinner, Nathan and I headed to some friends house, which is close to the Avon Baseball Stadium, the venue of the City of Avon's Fourth of July fireworks display. We had a great time of fellowship on my friends deck, and one friend took Nathan under his wing, and taught him how to catch fireflies, as well as his unique "techniques" in getting the flies to glow for longer...... This kept Nathan entertained until after 10pm when the fireworks display finally got underway.
Today, we had the day off and we definitely made the most of it! In the morning, we strapped the bikes to my car and headed to our friends house. They introduced us to a beautiful local park that had a great bicycle trail. Considering that today was the hottest of the weekend so far, the fact that the trail was mostly through the woods, under a thick canopy of leaves, made it even more pleasurable! After two circuits, we stopped and let the boys play on a playground and then sat down under a pavilion to enjoy a picnic lunch together! The morning tired Josh out and he fell asleep on the way home! It was definitely an action packed, fun and hot weekend, that we all thoroughly enjoyed!
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