Happy 4th of July

Fourth of July has come and gone yet again. It seems two holidays come and go around here in the blink of an eye, which means Christmas is right around the corner! We had a good holiday getting to visit with family and enjoy some good food and all the festivities that go with our Country's Birthday.
I started the weekend on Friday by getting up and cruising around to all the yard sales...unfortunatley around here they are mostly junk sales! I did get a couple good things, but after a couple hours of driving all over I was sadly disappointed I didn't come up with more treasures. Oh well I'll hope for Labor Day weekend! The rest of Friday for me was spent getting my house picked up and then I had Blake's girlfriend come over and do my hair for me, my roots were needing a pick me up! I also had my sister in laws Brooke and Kandra over and gave their tootsies a little pedi, making them look festive for the fourth! The boys went off and did their own thing while all us girls got to sit around and catch up.
So this is how I started Saturday, the actual 4th of July...(after the anvil woke me up that is :-)

Kandra and I along with an estimated couple hundred others joined in the 1st annual Carissa's Run. We had to be there by 530 am to register and get our shirts. We participated in the two mile fun run/walk, but we did run a portion of it and she even pushed Gavin in his little umbrella stroller while we cruised. It was a great event and I'm sure as the years go on it will have more and more people turning out to support such a great cause!
Then it was time to get ready for the parade, which we did. Kylie and Tyler were at Grammie and Papa's house getting ready because they were going to be riding on the float they were doing based on Glenn Beck's 9/12 project. So I got Roo and Kennedy ready and tried to get a picture, but this is the best I wound up with!

The parade went pretty much as usual, it was hot and there were lots of...interesting floats that drove by. Of course our favorite was Papa's float that had Kylie and Tyler on top of it. Here they are...

Poor Kennedy got doused with a big spray of water during the parade, she let out a shriek but once we picked her up out of her carseat she was happy as usual. It was her first 4th of July and we had her looking festive as ever!


After the parade ended I went to the park with my mom and Kylie to check out the booths and any games and or rides for Kylie. It was pretty worthless really, the best part was the frito pies we ate right before it rained! However it was still nice to go and spend a little time with my mom and Kylie by myself.
Once the park ended we all wound up at Matt's moms where we visited with some of his family that had come up to watch our spectacular firework display. We had a nice big bbq and ate some great food! We weren't quite sure when the food would be done cooking as there was SO MUCH of it...and here is our master chef El Dobo grilling it up...notice Uncle Matt with little Gavin!

I painted the kids face for the parade and just for fun that day and Tyler was the only one really showing it off!

We went to the field to watch the fireworks with some friends and then came home to go to sleep! That was a long day, but full of fun!