July 4, 2012
Heritage East Neighborhood,
Rotary Park,
and Our House
We had a special treat this 4th of July to have TWO of my sisters come into town. Jen and Brandon and their family stayed here en route to their new home in Georgia where they will be for the next three years, and Emma flew down from BYU-I to be with us for the week also! So we had a major party.
Here are pictures of the bike parade, and festivities at the neighborhood park, and then just some hanging' out pictures of later in the day . . .
The kids LOVED this little water table.
Despite Hayden's being stung by a bee earlier in the morning, he recovered quickly enough to do the three-legged race with our friend from church, Parker.
The Reeds watching the races
Dallin with friend Christian, and Daphne with friend Alexandria in their 3-legged race
Arthur with our friend Russ (Parker's Dad)
Brandon and Eric looking pretty serious about their racing strategy
guess it paid off, because they won first!
(Russ and Arthur took 2nd, by the way, but they didn't get a ribbon. Next time, we're bringing our own ribbons! ;)
I LOVE this picture of Dallin!
Okay, this is me holding my 1st place ribbon for the sack race. I just have to toot my own horn for a minute and say that this is the second year in a row that I've won. And this year, it was much less controversial. I was DEFINITELY the winner, and you should watch the video at the bottom to see my race. I might be the most impressive sack-jumping athlete I've ever known.
Popsicles
A Patriotic Trifle
Me and Emma made it and it was pretty delicious.
thank you pinterest.
Hayden and Sean thought they needed a brother picture by the trifle that they didn't make.
Emma and Jen up in the tree-house. It's actually kind of scary to get up there, so these are a couple of brave ladies.
And of course, sparklers and fireworks . . .
Happy Independence Day!
So grateful to live in this free country.
Okay, here is our Independence Day Movie. Many of the pictures I already posted are in there, but there is also footage of some of the races we participated in at the park, and they are pretty fun to watch. (Sorry, in advance, that the quality is so grainy. I'm too cheap to pay for more space in my One True Media account, so I had to do the smallest version since I've almost maxed out my space this month.)
2 comments:
Fun fun fun! Love all the pictures and love the video! I'm so glad you guys captured all the races on video and Sharee, you are the potato sack racing queen! Holy smokes! Also you and Emma did a lot better job at the three legged race then we did last year:) I just remember started out okay and then tripping and, and tripping and tripping some more!! But so much fun! We missed you guys this year, but are glad you guys had fun and posted pictures of your 4th of July adventures!
I just wanna say that I am super impressed with your potato sack skills and one day I hope I'll be brave enough to try it ;) So glad were still living in Albuquerque to enjoy another super fun 4th of July with you guys!
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