July 4th Neighborhood Parade!!!

Every 4th of July our neighborhood(members and non members alike) has a little parade. It's actually not that little. A really great lady in our ward started in years ago and it has been going ever since. We start by her house and you can ride whatever you want or walk and decorate your ride and yourself however you want. People really go all out. Of course my girls want their faces painted. Not A, he says it is way to girlish. This year we had Abraham Lincoln leading the parade. It was great! We go through the neighborhood and people come out and sit and watch and clap and cheer and wave, just like a reral parade. The kids love it!! We finish at the park in our neighborhood and have a really yummy breakfast and play games. It's a lot of fun and a good way to get to know all the people in the neighborhood, especially the inactive and non member ones. We have some really great people around here.

Getting ready to head out!

R's very intelligent face. She's got the Omer look down pretty good.

Waiting for the parade to start. Kirk is wearing his Captain America shirt I bought him for fathers day. What better way to show your patriotism.

This picture needs no words.....

E and her BFF Rebecca leading everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance before we ate breakfast.

1st game of the day.....3 legged race. This wasn't a very even match up, but they did pretty good.

2nd game......sack races. E didn't win, but she didn't fall either. She was proud of that.

Last game.....golf ball on a spoon. I wanted in on that, but of course let the kiddies win.

Park City...

Kirks parents have a time share up in Park City and each year each Kirk and each of his siblings take turns going up and spending a night or 2. We got to be there for the 4th this year and it was a lot of fun. After the parade we headed up. We had to hit the pool fisrt of course. The water was on the cold side, but still felt good. They had a hot tub....or should I say, melt your skin off tub.....it was so hot that when I got out my legs were bright red. Yikes!!!! I was really nice to get away and to be doing something different. Our kids are getting to be quit the little swimmers.

R flirting with a little boy and giving him the eye. I must say....he was a very cute little boy.

E and I stayed longer at the pool so we could swim in the deep end. She's like me and loves the water and loves to swim. WSe stayed in till we were nice and pruny!

She totally could have eaten that whole thing herself, and sure gave it a good try.

Waiting for the fireworks to start. It was fun just sitting and playing games and being silly. The kids got a little bored after awhile, but Kirk surprised them with some icecream and they were quite content after that. Not R though. She was like a crazy person. She was running around entertaining everyone around us and giving them a good laugh. She thinks she's pretty funny too. The fireworks up in Park City were great! Just as they were about to do the big finish, we heard this noise that sounded like water starting and everyone was looking around, when all of the sudden the sprinklers came on full force. You have never seen so many people move so fast and snatch up all the stuff and kids. It was pretty funny. ES didn't think so though. She got the most wet of all of us, so she was very sad and cold. We stayed to watch the finale.....totally worth it.
All of this made for a really long, busy and tiring day, but it was so much fun and our kids all said it was a fun, great day and thanked us....so that makes it all worth it!!!!