4th of July Festivities

Whew, what a long, FUN weekend. I don't even know where to start. Jason came home Thursday and we had a playgroup BBQ/pool party to attend. Then Friday we picked up the remaining furniture at the old house, since it's on track to be sold by August!!! Then Saturday we had a big day full of fun!

We got up early for the community parade. All the kids decorated their bikes or strollers or golf carts and walked from the top of our hill down to the pool for a big party. We thought we were just going to watch from the sidelines but as soon as we got to the top we ran into our friends and so we walked with them to the pool. It was pretty cool and we even had a police escort.

Then we walked back and got ready for the rest of the day. It was a nice walk and a great way to start the day.

We headed up the street to our friends for a BBQ lunch and playing on the jumpy castle for the kids.

These three play so well together and the girls LOVE to baby Ethan!

After lunch we headed home for Ethan's nap time and to finish getting things ready for the big fireworks display.

After feasting on ribs (even though most of us were still stuffed from lunch and all the snacks laying about) for dinner, we headed outside to enjoy the show.

I don't know who had more fun, the men or the kids! Lighting stuff on fire is always fun for these big guys, and chasing down the parachutes and running through smoke bombs is fun for the littler ones.

Ethan had the most fun playing with the pile of parachutes and eating them. And surprisingly, he wasn't effected or bothered by the big booming fireworks. He went to bed about 8:30p and slept right through the night.

We had about 17 people over to watch and then half way through our neighbors and their guests came out to watch too. We were pretty happy with most of what we bought. It felt like a professional show.

Everyone really had a great time and we're plotting already on how to make next year's bigger and better.

Hopefully next year we'll have more neighbors joining in. Right now, all but two houses on the cul-de-sac are for sale (the other one was just recently sold so we'll be getting new neighbors there soon).

It was a great weekend and now we're easing back into our busy summer schedule. Jason left this afternoon back to Ft. Bragg and won't be back until Labor Day weekend. But I'm planning on bringing the boys up for a couple weeks in August so that we can spend some time with Daddy. We miss him already!

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