Thursday, July 07, 2011

4th of July fun

We had a nice gathering of family this year for 4th of July. I love hosting a party on 4th of July. We had my parents, T’s parents, and my sister’s family over.

DSC03398DSC03399DSC03439 DSC03435  DSC03437 DSC03438 Got ready to walk down to the parade around 1:30pm.

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we sat with my coworker, Kim’s family. Her mother and my mother both taught together. The yard we sat in was new to us this year, but we sort of knew them.DSC03299

Kim’s parents sat in front of me. Her son was out front with the row of other kids to get all the goodies tossed out.DSC03301  DSC03303

Kids ready for some candy!DSC03306 DSC03309 DSC03311

where we sat this year along Main, my mom taught with the homeowner’s daughter. we sat under the tent, too!DSC03312 DSC03317

love this courthouse person DSC03318

can’t wait until our fair, love it so much! DSC03319

SPT’s entry and the banner I made for the car. Hairspray cast passed out flyers to parade-goers.DSC03321 DSC03322 DSC03323 DSC03325 DSC03328

love when they pass out popsicles! DSC03332 DSC03335 DSC03338

mom and Patsy, former coworkers DSC03340 DSC03341 DSC03342

my mom and her grandkids DSC03343

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Cousins were really excited to go swimming. T has really been working to get the pool water back to normal. It is super cloudy and looks like pond water green here. IMG_0636 IMG_0637 IMG_0638 IMG_0639  then ready for COOKOUT DSC03344

I had a separate dessert table this year DSC03345 DSC03347 DSC03348

Mom made 2 pies-key lime and apple pie DSC03350 DSC03352

Trent made cole slaw from scratch and he was so proud of it.  DSC03353 DSC03354 DSC03356 DSC03357

Dad posing with his cleanly eaten corn cob, it is amazing how he eats corn on the cob – it is like a squirrel ate it! DSC03358 DSC03360

then the kids hear the ice cream truck, so Cheryl gave them money for treatsDSC03361 DSC03363 DSC03364

Ethan gets bomb pop to stay with the theme of the day! DSC03365 DSC03370 DSC03371 DSC03372

time for GAMES of bags DSC03373 DSC03375

then on to FIREWORKSDSC03376sparklers DSC03378 DSC03379 DSC03381 DSC03385

and new for this year – colored smoke! E picked the colors-yellow & blue DSC03387 DSC03389 DSC03391 DSC03392

our neighbors lit up these hot air balloons that were fun to watch go way up in the air and then disappear  DSC03393DSC03394 DSC03395  DSC03401

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then we walk down to end of our street to watch the big fireworks at the fairgrounds DSC03424 DSC03427 DSC03429

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