Happy 4th of July!

We had such a great, but busy 4th of July weekend and I had so much fun that I was cameraless most of the weekend. 

Friday we went to Payton and Gracie's house just to hang out.  The kids had so much fun and Matt and Pay had a blast running around the house playing hide-and-go-seek.  Saturday we started swim lessons at our neighbor's house with Coach George.  He was great so I'm excited about working with him over the next few weeks.  Matt did great and is swimming pretty well.  Marlie did so-so, but we made huge progress later in the weekend.  Matt and Payton did a lesson together and Marlie and Gracie did their lesson together.  It was fun...well for the parents anyway. 

Saturday was Doug's birthday so after a nice lunch at his favorite spot - Chuy's - my parents took the kids and we headed downtown.  We stayed at the Hotel Icon (loved it - don't miss the berry citrus caipirinhia) and met some friends for dinner.  Then we were off to see Wicked which was just fabulous!   I have to thank our friends, the Krenzkes, for planning this big outing.  We ended with a great breakfast on Sunday morning at our favorite breakfast spot - Empire Cafe.  It was too much fun!!! 

Sunday night we headed to the Conner's house for 4th of July festivities.  We had fun chatting and doing some kid-friendly fireworks.  Marlie thought they were way too loud and headed straight into the house after just a few sparklers! 

The highlight of the weekend for Marlie was that her Dad got to come to her ballet class.  She showed off well and he was so proud of her! 

And then on Monday night we spent the evening at the pool.  It was a big day for the Maziur's...Marlie started swimming by herself...well she wears a life jacket but before that day she would not let me go.  Then she also went on the big blue slide.  She didn't really want to the first 2 times but after that she kept asking to go "1 more time".  I bet she went down about 8 times.  Matt was doing great showing Daddy that he could swim about half a lap which is much more than I can even do.  I'm so proud of them!!