4th of July

Like always our 4th of July holiday started off by marking off our spots for the parade and the fire works. Sherisse's Uncle used to always do this but for the past 4-5 years we've been doing it. The 2 days before the 4th we go and mark off where we're going to sit. We had to make sure and get to the parade early this year though because last year we got there way too late and someone had already taken our spot. We ended up sitting in the sun so we were all dying. This year Steve got a great spot in the shade which was especially good for me while I'm pregnant. The kids loved the parade and collected tons of candy. Spencer loves his Aunt Stephy, he sat with her most of the time during the parade, he's so cute!

After we went to the parade we went home and got ready to go to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house for our annual BBQ. Grandpa has started buying really nice streaks for this BBQ so we had a lovely meal. It's always so nice to be with family, we just relaxed and the kids played. We also checked out the progress of our family garden and planted our little pepper plant we've had growing in our window. I'm not sure how well it will do but everything else is looking great. It's so exciting to see the garden growing. Sherisse even helped the kids find a radish that was ready so they picked it and we all had a little bite. We'll have to take some more pictures of the garden soon.

We were all pretty tired after the BBQ so we went home to have a rest before the long night ahead of us. We all watched a movie on our bed, the boys fell asleep but we just rested. We went to pick Sherisse up at about 6:30pm and then we were off to the fireworks. We picked up some McDonald's on the way and we were set. There was already tons of people there but our spot didn't really fill up until it got later. The kids had a great time playing with our friends who were sitting in front of us, it was especially nice for me because then I didn't have to chase the kids all over the place. Spencer found lots of things to distract himself, he was trying to be a cowboy at one point by using the rope we had marked of our spot with.

The fireworks didn't start until about 10pm so it was pretty late but the kids were all still awake. I sat on the floor and the kids were all over me most of the time but it was cute. Sydney ended up falling asleep before the fireworks got over. Normally she's our night owl but she had to get up pretty early that morning and she normally sleeps in too so I wasn't too surprised when I found her asleep. The kids had a wonderful time, it's so nice to do these things with them as a family. This morning we all slept in really well, especially Syd and me, we didn't get up until about 10:30am. I actually had a great nights sleep for once, well apart from the fact that I threw up during the night, I think it was from a combination of too much food and too much sun.