Friday, July 6, 2012

Fourth of July {2012}

This year's July 4th was a bit different. To start, we knew we would not be seeing fireworks since most places (with the exception of the Rockies game or Elich Gardens) had cancelled their fireworks due to the dry weather and wildfires. Secondly, my Chris had to work from 6:30 am to 2 pm.

To celebrate a little in the morning, we invited one of Elianna's friend, Natalie, her little brother, Levi, and of course, Miss Angela over to swim in our little pool. Elianna and I both love to snack on food so I put together a plate of little snacky foods to munch on. Apparently Natalie and Levi also like munchy foods too since they all seemed to want to snack more than play in the pool.

Once all the food was eaten Elianna and Natalie played in the water while Angela and I got to sit around and chat. It was nice to have adult conversation for a bit!

After Chris got home and Elianna got up from her nap, we went to the "lawn" outside of the municipal building and met several families from church. There was a "concert" of sorts.  Natalie and Levi, Noelle and Micah, and Josh, Abigail and Patrick and, of course, their parents were there. It's super nice because Natalie, Noelle and Elianna are all around the same age and play so very well together.  They had fun running around having fun while the parents hung out and ate and talked and ate.

It was pretty much anti-climatic since there were no fireworks at the end to conclude our evening. I understand why the fireworks were cancelled but it was a bit disappointing to not be able to see any this year. Come to think of it, last year I worked and we didn't see any fireworks then either. Next year we will have to see about breaking this non-firework trend.














Elianna and Noelle in the back of a police car.  Better be the first and last time...

 We think Unca should have a police car like this!

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