Wednesday, July 8, 2009

July 4th 2009

I LOVE this holiday. I love the decorations, I love how hot it is outside, I love spending time with family, I love the food, I love that there isn't a lot of preparation that has to happen for it to be great!, and I love that we do the same thing every year!
Trevor was off work on friday so we tried to get up to his parents house as early as we could. We wanted to set our chairs up for the parade but there was a lady who was being the chair nazi sitting right by where we wanted to put them so we had to wait until later. People there take their parades very seriously!!

This is what we did on the 4th of July weekend...
We stopped at Pace's for a treat. The peach rainbow is my favorite! So yum.
We spent the evening swimming and eating yummy food.








We watched fireworks. I think they get better every year!


We got up early to run! Trevor and I ran the 5K (Our first official race. It was SO fun! Our goal was to finish in 30 minutes and we did it in 27.20) Miquelle and Jared ran the mile and Gabe ran the 1/2 mile.)

We had breakfast at the park.
We watched the parade.



We played at the park.





We took turns holding our cute new cousin.



We had fun with our cousins.





We had two baby blessings to go to on Sunday.

Kalianna (Hope you don't mind me using the picture Stacy, if you do just say the word and I will take it off.)

Claire
It was a great way to end the weekend. More food, more family, more time with cousins. We were TIRED by the time we got home!!

5 comments:

Stacy Lynn Carroll said...

Are you kidding me? I love when other people show off how cute she is!! =) Looks like you guys had a blast!

Anonymous said...

I love the 4th as well - it's one of my very favorite holidays and it was great to spend it with you guys.

What fun pics - that one of Gabe and the twins at the bottom of the bouncy slide is especially cute!

Amy said...

Where was all of this?

Elisabeth said...

What a fun holiday! I think I vaguely remember that he's from Centerville, is that right? Anyway, I'm a little envious because there isn't a parade around here on the 4th and I miss those local Utah parades alot!
Thanks for all of your recent blog comments, oh and sometime you'll have to post/send me how you've decorated your boys' bedroom so I can get some ideas!

Elisabeth

macmec said...

Centerville is the place indeed. They've been doing it as long as I can remember. Very fun, and great to see people I know from years past by visiting the old stomping grounds.