July 4th Parade

 The top four pictures were taken by our amazing friend, KC. She always captures such beautiful moments.

What a 4th! We started the Morning with our neighborhoods annual 4th of July parade. This was actually my first year, in 2 years not to Chair this event. It was so nice to just be able to go and participate. Tyler rode his bike and Georgia Kate rode in her stroller. We saw so many wonderful friends, and our Ghee was with us as well. Poppy has been so busy with work, but we are hoping things will start slowing down for him... we missed him. Sorry for the picture over load but of course we took tons of pictures from our Morning.
After the parade we headed home to gear up for a night of friends and fireworks. Our house is right by where the City's Firework show and city wide 4th of July event, so we started a tradition when we moved in to our house of having a family 4th of July party. We do a pot luck, play/visit, and and at dark it is time for the show. We usually walk down to the end of our street so we have a better view... we have tons of trees in our neighborhood so sometimes they block the view, however this year I was surprised at how well I could see from our front yard... Our little firecracker did not last for the party or the fireworks... she was dreaming of fireworks. :) Therefore, I stayed home...  I got a lot of cleaning done, and our house needed it with 21 kids and adults at our house. I did not mind one bit, I loved having a sweet sleeping baby in our home this year.
We had such a wonderful 4th and the best part is Ryan took the rest of the week off, so we really had so much fun as a family this week, we love having Daddy home and I think we are all going to miss him tomorrow when he has to go back. What a wonderful 4th of July week.