Dark and Beautiful

Last night Cliff, or papa as Summer likes to call him, decided that even though it was late and Summer was ready for bed, he wanted to pop the first firework of the year. We found out that yesterday was the first legal day to pop fireworks in Las Vegas and that meant we were ok popping some in our back yard. Summer was already sleepy, earlier in the evening we had a great invitation to go swimming over the Springstons house around 6:00. Papa, Summer and I went and had a lot of fun playing in the 94 degree pool. It was so nice and warm and we stayed about 45 minutes. Here is a cute video of my brave little princess jumping right into the water and even going under!

We have big plans for the Fourth, the usual fun Fourth of July activities, BBQ, perhaps burgers and hot dogs, going to the nearest station casino and watching the fireworks for free, that is IF we can keep Summer up until 9:30, and then maybe sleeping out in the backyard. We have a nice tent that we have used once before and I want to get it out and see if I can get it up, and see if it still works, it should, they don't go bad but it has been in the garage for a few years. It will also depend on how hot it is outside at night, we are hitting 106+ in the days this week and that might make it too hot at night. I also don't know how well we will sleep outside, Summer tends to turn a lot and I never sleep as good as I do alone, even though I really love sleeping with her, so we will see how it goes.

Since I am calling this post the dark and beautiful it is only fair that I show one more photo I took this past weekend. I had to go take pictures of dogs jumping into the water for a friend and I needed to check out action settings. Since I had never really taken photos like this I was playing with the camera and Summer was sitting next to me playing in the curtains. I had the settings all wrong and snapped a picture that I love! Sure it is dark but so pretty!


This coming week should be a lot of fun, I need to take more photos and I only work 4 days, we have a three day weekend coming up and I can't wait! Plus Becca, our friends 15 (almost 16) year old daughter will be spending the weekend with us so I have a model to play with, I am excited!