The Great American 4th of July!

Greetings and salutations loyal readers!

I hope you all had a good 4^th of July weekend, the Labbe family had a very successful one that was full of good times and happy memories, especially for one Canaan Joseph Labbe.

On Friday the 3^rd around noonish I brought Canaan and Addison to Krista’s as they were going to spend the night with their cousins for a rockin’ good time. This started out earlier in the week with Kate offering to swap kids with Krista and ended with Krista taking them both. YAY!

Krista pretty amazing, took the kids to Baileys Island for some ocean time where Addison made new friends in deceased Jelly Fish that she carried around and made a bed for?  Later the boys stayed for some slip and slide action while the girls went to the movies, then came home for some slip and sliding of their own, no bathing suits needed. 

Saturday the 4^th they took the kids to a hitting clinic with former Red Sox Bernie Carbo, he played 12 years in MLB and with the Red Sox for only a couple but they were is best years in Baseball and he was part of the 1975 team that went to the World Series.  He was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004.  The kids had a good time and they got my baseball signed that I already had signed by Jerry Remy, Oil Can Boyd, and Luis Tiant. 

We brought Addison to her mother while Canaan went with them to Aunt Carolyn’s for our 4^th of July family celebration.  As usually tons of fun was had by all with numerous activities taking place.

Ice Cream Making

Swimming

Trampolining

Kayaking

Frisbeeing

Boating

Bubbling

Canoeing

Fishing

Ping Ponging – Canaan and Seth battled it out but I have not photographic evidence of this.

And of course eating

We even got a lesson in fish anatomy when Mrs. Mom cleaned the fish Caleb caught and showed those interested such neat things as the fishes still beating heart!

Canaan participated in all of the activities playing hard the entire time and having a blast.  What he wanted to do the most was go kayaking, it was the reason he wanted to stay with us for the afternoon.  When we dropped him with his mother they had a giant slip and slide set up, it was actually quite impressive, and within a minute of him exiting the van he was on the tube riding down the hill.

As with all the Neighoff/Mueller family gatherings there was a large group of us of 20 with Seth, Erin, & Will arriving later in the day bring the count to 23 attendees.  From my vantage point everyone had a great time just relaxing and enjoying the day.  It would have been nice to have some sun though.

Aunt Carolyn took Canaan, Landen, & Caiden out in the Kayaks going out and around the big island the whole trip taking close to an hour.  I pretty sure she had just has much fun as the boys did!

Caleb caught the biggest and only fish of the day with his 17 inch long 1 ¾ pound bass that Linda cooked and ate commenting later that it was delicious. 

The ice cream was extra tasty this day, not sure why maybe it was the fresh strawberries.

I look forward to next gathering!

Later Readers!