Monday, July 6, 2009

I love Independence Day!

Hooray!!! It's my very favorite holiday. What an awesome time of year this is. We get to celebrate our freedoms and honor our military and spend the day eating BBQ, watching parades and lighting fireworks. All in the dead of summer which too, is my favorite time of year. How can one NOT know we live in the very best Country? God Bless the USA!
My kids are such good sports because I have them go with me to the flag raising ceremony at the fire station here in town. We have an outdoor breakfast by GHS. Dance company at 7:30, then the ceremony at 8am. Then it's off to save our spots for the parade! Tiff and her family came to watch the parade with us and ended up staying the rest of the day, too! I felt badly that I didn't see her too much because I had other plans for the day. At least Tracy lives here too and was able to spend more time than I did with Tiff and her family! Here is the cutest picture of her and her 2 1/2 month old baby. She's a kangaroo!

Here we all are waiting for the parade to start. Left to right: Nathan (drinking), Allie, Tiff and baby Blake, Seth, Braiden, Mike....Mindy and Andrew in back, Jaden in front, Tracy, Matt and John.

Maddie was a part of the parade with the Grantsville Dance Company. She ran behind the float handing out flyers. You can see her running with her white sunglasses in this pic.
After the parade, we took off to the park for the festivities all afternoon. This is a picture of Maddie, Jaden and Lindsey with their fishies they caught. Dang it....I have to go buy a fishbowl now!



Me, Trisha and Shereen feeding our faces..... It was a great day, as always!!!!








10 comments:

Briana said...

wow! you guys were busy people! did Maddie have a fun time in the parade?! You guys must have had a wonderful time!

Anonymous said...

you are crazy, but awesome, good job to be so patriotic. we love the fireworks also, they are so fun to watch. you guys are all so cute. We sure miss you all. I love how you call Tiff a kangaroo, awesome. Love Joel

Traci said...

the 4th really is a great holiday! what a fun filled day you guys had!

Allie said...

That was a way fun day! I was scared of ashes falling on me too! Maddie was great at passing out flyers! :D

grandmasue said...

It was really weird being down here in a different country on the 4th of July, thanks for sharing your celebration with us.

Doney Days said...

Love the cute pics Deb! You look so cute in your patriotic shirt!

Camille said...

Oh I so love the 4th too! I'm so glad you got to hang out with your fam and had such a wonderful day!

Sondra said...

Oh! It looks like you all had so much fun! You're lucky to have one sister so close and Tiff not too far away. Tiff is such an adorable mom, and all the kids are all just good looking. I like the three cute kids with the fish, but I wouldn't want to have fish either. They usually die here and then we feel bad.

The Walch Family said...

I had a post on my blog and tagged you... Can't wait to see your answers! Love you!

val said...

Deb, I love these pics, and the 4th of July too.. way awesome that you get up early and enjoy all the patriotism of the day. I'm glad you had family around, that makes it the best! This was our 1st 4th of July out of St. George in 8 years, and it was so nice to not be burning up! How are your fishies? I love that you wear your sunglasses to keep the danger away from your eyes!!! miss ya!

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