I hope you all had a fun 4th of July and were able to spend some time with friends and family celebrating the holiday.
I really wanted to go to a parade this year. What is it about a parade that is so patriotic? I love the marching bands and floats and horses and the crowds. It literally brought a tear to eye as it started. Then the novelty of it wore off and it just got LONG, but it ended with a bang.
We decided to try the Kaysville parade where my mom lives this year. Jason had to work in the morning but Justin was there, eating cotton candy at 1030am!!
There were a lot of people and kids there. We made Justin go out and catch candy for the little kids who couldn't because the big kids took it all! It was fun to watch him acting like a 6 yr old again. LOL
We found out that the end of the Kaysville parade basically turns into a water fight between the floats and the spectators. EVERYONE (at least who knows this) has big super soaker water guns or water balloons or huge water jugs to participate.
You know Art, he had to get in the middle of it and got a water balloon from the red headed kid in the photo and got Lyn, so Lyn being Lyn and to get a bucket of water to try to get Art back and my wonderful, brave husband decided to hide behind.....my mother!!!
We ended the day with the traditional BBQ. Here the kids are hanging out on the deck at Mom's.
We were going to go down and watch one of the many firework displays the cities around do, but Vint bought a nice assortment of fireworks and the kids being teenagers were happier to be involved in the lighting of them instead of just being a spectator.
The kids got pretty crazy at the end. Here is Jason doing his best caveman dance celebrating "FIRE".
We had a fun day and what was best......was the next day was Saturday so we got a 3 day weekend!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend too!
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Happy 4th of July
Posted by Another Dieter at 9:59 PM
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3 comments:
WOW....love your moms deck and yard! I want to see more pics of that! Glad you had a great 4th.
Those pics of Lyn and your mom really make me miss your family. Isn't it funny how that works? I'm glad you guys had a good fourth! I'll have to get some of our pics posted. They're not as super fun as yours but pics just the same. Thanks for posting!!
I have never really got into the parade thing, only with my friend Desiree because her birthday is July 24, but she lives in WA now, and nobody throws her a parade there! Anyway, it is going to be fun going with Ellie to parades and starting holiday traditions with her. Its neat looking at your pics from the day, even with the kids getting older they still want to hang out and have family fun!
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