July 4th!

What a day July 4th was!!  I got up early and went to the gym.  I finished working out and was at work at 630 am.  We rushed to get the patients seen that really needed to be seen so we could get out in time to make it home to parades with our kids.  Paul has taken the kids to the Granite Parade in our neighborhood the past couple of years and I've always been working.  We made it work this year to make sure I could be there too.  

The kids had so much fun at the parade.  First, it was hot!  So hot!!  The parade is pretty much our neighbor's in decorated cars or kids on bikes throwing candy.   The kids love it! 

The parade started with a firetruck and police on motorcycles and Audrey thought it was too loud!

After the parade we walk over to the church parking lot and the neighborhood puts on a carnival.  The games are all like 50 cents and the kids get prizes.  They also have food(hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, ice cream, nachos) also for like 50 cents.  

The games are like this one where you shoot a water gun to knock ping pong balls off golf pegs!

The kids loved them all!

They had this cute little photo booth set up too!  

After the carnival we all went home and took naps.  I woke up feeling pretty sick. I'd been fighting an infection all week and it picked the holiday to win.  So, Paul headed to the pool with the kids and I headed to the instacare for some antibiotics.  They had fun swimming but I was pretty miserable the rest of the night.  We had to work the next day so we weren't able to go out to fireworks so we did some in the driveway.  The kids love doing it.  One of these years we'll get them to a real firework show.  The 4th will be on Friday next year right.....we'll do it then!