Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Happy 4th of July!!

We have celebrated the 4th of July every year in Delta since we have moved here and love it. The small town celebrations are the best! My parents were here to celebrate with us again and this year Todd's brother Kevin and his family Candace, Lillian, and Isabelle, came to see what we keep raving about to them. I hope they had as much fun as we always do!

We of course started off the celebrating with the kids parade the night of the 3rd. We got the bikes and wagon all decorated up for the 2 minutes (that's what is seems like) it takes them to ride down the street. I think this is actually my favorite part of the whole celebration. I love seeing my boys so excited!

Jaygen in the kid parade


Todd, Pace, and Briggs (Todd is a great sport to pull the boys each year!!)



Briggs loved riding in the wagon!

The parade went to fast I didn't even get pictures of Isabelle and Lillian...sorry! But they looked way cute too!

I started the morning of the 4th off with a 5k race. Since Candace was going to be here, I even convinced her to run it too! It actually turned out to be more of an obstacle course because we had to scale a closed gate (must be a Delta thing) but I was still so surprised with the time we got...we did awesome. It was fun minus the scrapes from the fence!!!!

Then we headed to the parade. The kids had fun and of course loaded up on candy. After the parade we went to the park to get in on all that fun. The kids played on the big blow up toys and then they rode the horses. All the kids had a horse ride and Jaygen loved it so much he asked grandpa for money to ride again! By that time everyone was about pooped out so we headed home.

Kevin, Candace, Pace, Todd, Isabelle, Jaygen, and Lillian at the parade waiting for the candy!

Some of us went to the matinee movie and then we came home and set up the little pools in the back yard so the kids could play in the water while we BBQ some yummy food! The kids were pretty tired by now but had fun cooling off in the water. Briggs especially LOVED the water!

Briggs

Pace, Isabelle, and Jaygen

We skipped out on the derby this year since it isn't that much fun with little kids and stayed home to do our own fireworks. It was a long and tiring day but we had a great 4th of July as always!!!!

5 comments:

Tiff said...

Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun. Kevin and Candace should come again next year and we will for sure do a bbq all together!

The Tophams said...

Looks like fun! The 4th is always way fun but way tiring. I can't believe how big Briggs is! Cute boys!

Kim said...

The 4th is always such a busy day. But so much fun. The pool parties are one of my fave parts of the 4th. It's way too hot to spend too much time at the park.

April Leydsman Mason said...

your kids are so dang cute. You guys are always doing so much fun stuff. Maybe I need to move to Delta.

Jamie said...

Looks like you had a fun day. Briggs is getting so big....I havn't seen him for awhile. You have way cute kids!