The Fourth

The Fourth started pretty early (for us) with the neighborhood parade. The parade started at 8am at the Day-riverside library, they had a flag raising ceremony and some speakers. If not for the kids and their parents there would have been about ten people there for the ceremony. They didn't advertise it at all. I'm on the Community Council, I hear all sorts of off the wall events and I heard nothing about this. Even if people showed up they still wouldn't have been able to hear the speakers.

The parade started off crazy! And I use the term parade loosely, it was a parade of kids on bikes and parents walking with their kids and strollers. I was hoping that it would have been more like the Stansbury Park Fourth of July parade, same thing only a couple fire trucks leading the parade sounding their sirens letting everyone know it coming, followed by some local politicians and then the kiddies. The start of out parade was a huge traffic jam trying to cross the Jordan River. You wouldn't think that it would be so bad but when you have 100 or so kids on bikes, half of whom really can't ride a bike add about 40 or so parents half of them pushing strollers, bottle necks are easy to come by. The Rose Park parade went along the Jordan River walkway to Day-riverside Park. When we arrived at the park breakfast was waiting, pancakes, hash browns and sausage, not too bad.

They helped their moms decorate their bikes. They were so excited to be in the parade.



Looks like we have two sets of twins and a baby. When we are our with them people always are asking us if we have twins. People in our church can't tell them apart, even when I'm holding Cody. On a side note, at church on Sunday, when cody saw gavin he yelled, "hi gavin" and gavin yelled back "hi cody". Later during church, cody was lying on the ground and gavin yelled, "cody" so cody says "what" then cody pops up and says "boo!"


We headed out to Stansbury for Maryann's annual Fourth of July bbq. It was kinda fun seeing all the family and the blogging family members. Randy's deck looks really nice, he just about killed himself rebuilding the thing in time for the bbq. He added a couple of slides to the deck that the kids and the adults love. I didn't get any picture of them, not sure why but next time I'm out their.




Cody fell asleep while most of the crowd was still there. He was so tired that he laid down on the picnic table, he was eating candy (never too tired to eat candy) that he was demanding from T's aunt and cousin. After all was cleaned up we loaded the kids up and went up to Tooele to watch the fireworks. It was 9:10 when we first saw them and it was still light out. By the time we got to our parking spot to watch the works it was 9:30, the whole time cody was watching the fire works, letting us know every time he saw one, b had fallen asleep. We stopped and threw the kids in the truck with their cousins and we watched another fifteen minutes of fireworks. They were sweet fireworks, huge and lots of them. Cody loved it! He stood in the back of the truck just pointing, "ooo that was a big one!". Luke is great, we had our dog coco and once luke saw coco, he could care less about the fireworks, "coco! coco!".

Such a busy weekend. No more just kicking back and enjoying the opportunity to do nothing. It's still enjoyable, just in a different way now.