.the westensee family.: .blogging about july 4th on july 29th.

.wow. i am WAY behind in the blogging world.

.so because we are having a lazy day today because parker boy still aint feeling hot, and sounds WORSE than this last week, i will blog. he is currently sleeping. poor boy. hopefully we can get him in today or tomorrow.

.fourth of july was nice. we all slept in. it felt SO good. for everybody to be able to sleep in. brooklynn didnt know what to do when she woke up to find daddy home in the middle of the week. she was beyond herself.

.we made breakfast and got ready to head to seaworld. we figured we wanted to see a few shows and than maybe the waterpark.

.off we went. we hit up the waterskiing show. o.m.g. there are AMAZING. we planned to bring our really nice video camera to get awesome video, so i can show you what i mean. they were amazing. if the video isnt that good, you can guess andrew was behind the video camera. i wanted to zoom in so everyone can SEE what we are talking about. so i did the last half and andrew did the first half. amazing.

.we KNEW we had to hit up elmo for brooklynn. so we did. and since i had been to the show before, we kinda know where to go and where not to go. . . so i stood in the back by the stage and guess who got a high five from elmo...brooklynn! she was beyond herself. so excited.

.we went to another show. i was MAD after this show. parker was due for a nap. so i stood up before the show (we got there 20 minutes early) so i stood up and rocked parker to sleep. i went to sit down to see some lady had taken my stop, EVEN AFTER andrew had told her it was taken. so she stands up to give me my spot back and her husband is like you can still sit there. so we are SQUISHED in the seating area which wakes up parker. as i stood up to leave and rock him again, i said LOUD, "holy hell, you have got to be kidding me". i stood the entire show. andrew offered to take him, but i told him not to worry about it. she is happy it was 4th of july because otherwise i was about to have all hell break loose and create a HUGE scene. not kidding. i was LIVID when we left that show, and i gave her the stink eye as we left.

.than we headed to the waterpark. to find a line. a really long line. we decided against it. and headed home. i filled up the kids awesome walmart plastic pool and got in with them. and we had a fantastic time.

.the remainder of the night we hung out. than the fireworks started and the kids began to freak out. so we went across the street. put the kids in the baby swings and andrew and i grabbed the other swings and we swung and watched the neighborhood light up the sky. the kids LOVED it. it was pretty cool and a GREAT 4th of july.