First Fourth Of July

Obviously this was Dominick's first 4th Of July. Most years this is my absolute favorite holiday, I mean is there anything that screams "summer" like the Fourth? I think not! Ever since being in California it hasn't been the top of my favorites. In Michigan my family has a tradition of being at the lake and all together and it's just not the same. We try to make the best of it every year, but we have not had one to top any of the years past.

This year we had big plans on attending the rodeo in town and watching the fireworks however we realized tickets were $20 a person and it just didn't seem worth ~$50+ with parking, the tickets, gas and everything else to go when we were heading to San Diego the following morning and we have started following a stricter budget.

Instead we hung around the house and then drove to town. Babies R Us was having a diapers sale (a huge tote of diapers for $25 - I think it was ~182 diapers) so we picked up a bunch of diapers and a few other things for Dominick and Ryan also went to the auto store to pick up oil so he could do an oil change on my car.

When we got back we grilled steak and had red potatoes, jalapeno and cheese bread, watermelon (because what's more American than watermelon?) and corn. After dinner we went to a friends house and hung out until we drove to the dirt bike track on base to watch the fireworks. Dominick rode around in this little car that was our friends' and he ended up going down a couple little hills. I was nervous, but it didn't phase him at all and he loved it.

Unfortunately, Dominick fell asleep before the fireworks started so he completely missed out. We were actually really happy we didn't go to the rodeo because he had such a good night being with friends.

I hope y'all had an equally great Fourth of July.