This year we went to my mom and Paul’s cottage on Lake Ontario to celebrate the 4th. We camped out Tuesday night and Ben slept in the guest cottage out back. It’s not that we didn’t want to introduce him to camping…it’s just that it was so much easier to have him sleep in the quiet cottage!

Andy setting up the tent. And yes, I took pictures instead of helping ;-)

He actually had to fix a problem with his truck when we arrived. It turned out a little stone had just gotten jammed somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be. Paul handed him a hammer as a joke, how helpful.

Tuesday night we hung out with my mom, Paul, Justin and Kate. We played darts in the garage and the girls won. I may have cheated…

Mom and Aubrey watching the game.

Paul has all these fun things hanging up in the garage. One of them is a t-shirt from a band he used to be in.

Beautiful sunset on Tuesday night.

Aubrey watching the sunset. She’s SO cute!

My mom and Paul had a party for their cottage neighbors and friends on the 4th. We didn’t really hang out with people much as we were baby wrangling ;-)

We ended up not staying for fireworks because Andy had to work the next day. We definitely had fun at the lake but a holiday with kids isn’t entirely relaxing ;-) Ben’s such a good boy, he’s just SO adventurous and there was the water, rocky cliff, steps, road, dogs, cars, people, oh my! I don’t know if next year at almost 3 will be easier than this year’s almost 2, but here’s hoping. Even though it was a lot of work, we really enjoyed the time with family!