7/26/2009

Fourth of July

Okay, I think we're close to getting this blog caught up now. Just one or two more posts to go. We headed to Racine for our annual Fourth of July trip. This year was packed with quite a bit of activity!

Friday, the girls and I went downtown with Tom and Pat to see the Adirondack chairs that had been painted by local artists and to visit with Great-Grandma Iz and Great-Grandpa Nick.




That night, we went to Ben and Jenelle's house for their annual Third of July party. We had a great time visiting with all their friends and their kids. Ella and Lily had a really great time playing baseball, doing sparklers, climbing around on their fence, and more.

Saturday we made our way downtown to see the parade. The girls had a great time and loved it. For Andrew and I, the parade was a little lacking this year. But maybe that's because we've seen it several years now. We also were sitting at the end of the parade route and it just seemed like everyone was pretty tired and lacking energy by the time they got to us.


Ella hanging out with Cousin Rachel.

We had lunch at Andrew's grandparents and then relaxed for a bit before heading over to Uncle Nick's house for a BBQ. He had a snow cone machine this year! Not a Snoopy Snow Cone machine either! Like a real one! The girls thought that was soo cool! I'm pretty sure Ella had two or three of them.


We saw the fireworks down by the lake that night and were pretty wowed by them. The girls love that their is a smiley face firework and they were just waiting for it. It was their favorite last year. And they did two or three of them!

As if all of that wasn't enough excitement for one weekend, on Sunday, we all met up again for Nick and Iz's 60th Wedding Anniversary party at Infusino's. The party was a great success.

Do you see the number of kiddie cocktail glasses there are on the table?


And finally, here are a few random photos from our time there too:

1 comment:

Mary said...

LOVE the golf photos of the girls. Maybe Nana could have a couple prints to update my golf room photos?