Happy 4th of July!

We hope you all had a great day and celebrated America's birthday! After the race yesterday, we watched a parade. The girls loved to watch all the floats go by. Molly's favorite part was all the candy being thrown at her. She had to open every sucker and take a taste of it. That was fine with me. It was 9:00 in the morning and I think she tasted 7 or 8 suckers but, never finished a whole sucker! After the parade, we went to the Highlands Ranch 4th Celebration. There were jump castles, a train, face painting, balloons and a great band.








After lunch and a nap, we went to a chili cook off. It was fun to taste all kinds of different chili recipes. Of course, no one gave their secret recipes away.

Then we went to my parents house for ribs! They were so yummy!! Thanks Mom for the great ribs! And of course we had the now traditional fruit pizza. Mike that was the best batch yet!! When it got dark, we drove back to watch the fireworks at our house. In years past, we watch the fireworks in our backyard but, this year, we couldn't see them because our trees have grown so much. We ended up on the sidewalk on the side of our house. This was Molly's first year for staying up and watching the show. She loved it but had a hard time sitting still! Needless to say the girls were exhausted when they finally got to bed at 10:30!