The Riggle Family: 4th of July

So, I meant to put this up a week ago, but obviously that didn't happen. For the 4th of July we went to a friend's family's house on a private lake in Monroe. We laid in the sun, slept, ate and did some swimming. Then we all sat on the grass and watched everyone set off fireworks. Addie is completely afraid of fireworks, as we saw at Emerald Downs. Well, for the 4th she came up with a safe zone. She kept trying to lay flat on me and Alisha's laps so I laid a towel down for her and covered her up with a blanket and this became the place she felt safe. Ethan, of course, also tried to protect her and was trying to get under the blanket and make her laugh. It worked really well. The fireworks went on for quite a while. They would go off for awhile and then stop for awhile. During one of the breaks Addie was out from under the blanket talking to Derek when all of sudden someone set off a firework across the lake and Addie dropped onto her tummy on the ground, as if she had heard a gun shot, and then quickly got under the blanket. A little while later as the fireworks started slowing down she again was out from under the blanket and another one went off. She dropped to a crouch and crawled like a duck to get under the blanket again. It was adorable even though we felt bad for her. the next day we headed home and took 4 long hours to get home. traffic was bad but not going in our direction. We stopped at a mall so that Derek and Addie could take a nap in the trailer. Derek had gotten no sleep the night before and so ethan and I went to Factoria Mall to find him a case for his DSi. Then we set off again. We decided to go home a different way and set off towards Puyallup where they have built a Sonic. Since we almost never get Sonic...only when we are out of town...we thought we would stop. It was unreal. It was not all that busy when we got there but we could see where it gets busy. They had someone to direct traffic and had rows set up for cars to drive through to wait in line to park their car and get drive in food. I love Sonic, but I doubt I would wait over two hours like some people did. This Sonic even has the staff wearing roller skates. It was fun. Well, enough blabbering and some pics for you.

Ethan was a total water baby. He was in the lake the entire time

Here is Ethan in all of his flotation gear giving Addie a ride

I don't know if you can see all of his flotation devices here, so I'll break it down...1 floatie, a noodle, a tube, a life jacket amd arm floaties. I'm pretty sure this kid won't be drowning any time soon.