The Forth of July...

                     
I love parades, cook outs, and fireworks.  Naturally, the Forth of July is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate and usually by doing all of those things. Our town has a great celebration. The town square gets decked out with flags, there is an evening parade, a festival with music, food and games, and fire works.

This year we participated in the parade with our preschool. The theme of our float was super heroes. All the kids were dressed in red, white and blue with capes or super hero costumes. It was super cute. Most of the adults dressed up as characters also. I walked the parade passing out candy. It started out great but by the end I was so exhausted because we decided to go for a run earlier in the day that ended up being a 5k in distance. Not the best idea when you have to walk a parade that's roughly four miles!

2014 Forth of July Parade

We are very lucky in that we live within walking distance of all the events. The parade is a block away so when we hear it coming we walk over and stand in the street and watch as long as we all can. It is a great community parade with lots of businesses, organizations, our first responders, high school bands, pre-schools, scout troops and politicians. Plus, a roller skating frog! Who wouldn't love that! 

We were lucky to get to spend the afternoon and evening with our good friends. Even Syd, the dog, got in on the super hero action. As the sky began to grow dark we packed up our things to head to our spot to watch the fireworks.