4th of July!

July 12, 2010 on 10:10 pm | In Haley, Hayden and Laura, Trey | No Comments

A little late, I know, but the 4th was a smashing success.  We started off the weekend with the Lakeland Kid’s Parade in our neighborhood.  It didn’t go as well as we envisioned.   Primarily because we forgot to put panties on Haley.  Does that make us bad parents?  Nah…well, maybe!?!  We didn’t realize it and neither did Haley until she got to the start of the parade and was sitting in the wagon.  We then witnessed a minor meltdown.  Honestly…I couldn’t blame her. 

So we rushed home to get her some panties and still managed to catch part of the parade.  Haley didn’t mind holding up the police escorts by stopping for a little hopscotch.  Afterwards, there was refreshments and we got a chance to get the kids’ pictures taken with the policemen.  Haley seemed to enjoy it, but Trey wanted nothing to do with it.

 

That evening, we invited over some friends and had a “cookout” in the cove.  I put cookout in quotes because we didn’t really cook.  A few of our friends did, but we ran to Little Caesars for a $5 hot and ready.  I know…pretty lame to celebrate the Independence of the United States with a pizza.  The Lakeland fireworks weren’t bad.  In fact, we’d have probably thought they were awesome had we not seen Bellevue’s the weekend before.

We rounded out the weekend with a visit to Tupelo to visit my grandfather and a trip to a friend’s house for dinner.  We were able to get a few fireworks shot off that night before hitting the sack and wrapping up a solid 4th of July weekend!