I'm going to start catching up with the awesome and completely exhausting July 4th holiday we had. It started with some swinging to kick off the long weekend...
Friday we had a great time at Sarah and Brian's cooking out and hanging out. Swimming for the kids, lots of food, fun and a firepit for all :)
Saturday we missed the Hilliard parade because the kids slept in late - the usual for them these days. We made it down to watch the Doo Dah parade in the Short North though. Our first time and we had so much fun. Definitely NOT your typical parade! Creative, fun, odd, goofy, different and sometimes scary for sure. Super fun time that we hope to make a tradition!
From Doo Dah we went to the annual James pool party - luckily the weather was pretty decent and the kids got to swim. Somehow I ended up with no pictures - must have been too busy gabbing!
Justin spent a HUGE chuck of Saturday cleaning out his truck and removing the cap so that he could do the Annual "drive the kids to the fireworks in the back of the truck" run. We had a nice clean truck to pile into the back of...so that we could promptly get eaten alive by 1 Billion mosquitoes.
We had a much smaller group of kids this year - Mason was working, Sarah was out of town, Ashlee with other friends...as they get older and go their other ways. But we still had a great time.
Michael, Silas, Allysa and Ella
Sunday - when we thought we couldn't take any more fun...the women's US soccer team played in the World Cup on Sunday night. A high school friend invited us over to swim and watch the game. Awesome fun and awesome game!!
I'm surprised that here it is - Tuesday - and I'm not still asleep. Instead, I'm finally blogging! I am going to try VERY hard to keep up...
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