I wish I could say that we have a tradition of some sort for this holiday, but we don’t… we just kind of go with the flow. It is one of my favorite holidays.
Growing up my parents did the whole fireworks, block party with the barbecuing and all. Up until my little brothers were about twelve or thirteen. From there it became just a holiday where we relaxed and barbecued, but little by little we all started doing our own thing.
The last two years Kris has worked stand by which keeps us tied to our home or only a five mile radius within of our home. Luckily we have a pool in our condo community and so we decided that swimming and barbecue would do this year. We were lucky enough that Socorro wanted to visit so we were able to finally see Ubaldo and spend some quality time together. Annie came by later and joined us later in the evening and I was in bestie heaven. We were able to enjoy fireworks from the high school nearby which Ubaldo studied very intensely and was excited to see them although a bit scared at first of the noise. Understandable for an almost two year old, he’s getting so big.
Because we were hosting and too relaxed I only got these following shots of Socorro and her family at the pool.
Of all the toys Socorro bought him he was most inthralled with these squishy balls that soak up the water and float. He enjoyed it every single time he squirted his parents!
This is the face of a little firecracker!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend.
by Nancy Orozco
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