July 4th

We had a great July 4th!  We loved having Papa home for a day in the middle of the week!  We played the whole day.  We started out the day with our family tradition of collecting trash in our neighborhood.  We do this as a birthday present for America. 

Claire and Lily looking for trash

Ollie checking to see how much trash he had collected

Ollie found a penny...  what kid doesn't love to find a penny???

For lunch we got together with friends at the Hubbard's house.  They have a tradition to have lunch and a parade every year.  We have enjoyed being part of the festivities the last few years.  The kids LOVE the parade and remember it and talk about it all year long.  :)

Waiting in line for the parade to begin

Ollie and Lily played their harmonicas

Claire played her maraca

We finished off the day by getting together with some church friends.  We had dinner and played water games and had fireworks when it got dark.  Our kids especially liked all the water toys!!

Lily loved crawling down the slip and slide

The girls playing together and taking over the slip and slide

Claire is a crazy woman when it comes to water.  She has no fear!  Papa was taking her and sliding her down the slide and she loved it!

Ollie had lots of young boys to play with.  He was totally and completely happy.  The boys would run and do the slip and slide and then jump into this pool and splash like crazy then they would run over to the water slide and do that a few times and then start the whole thing over again.  He was moving so much that I didn't get many pictures of him!

So there you have it.  Our busy and fun July 4th.