Celebrate Good Times come on!

Well happy Independence Day everyone. We'd like to report a successful celebration for 2008! We got up early enough to make it to the Boulder City parade. It is a very political parade I must say. So one can get loaded with political paraphernalia. But at least there is usually candy involved.We were lucky enough to join the Tobler family in their sweet spot on the parade route, sans our Tobler family (on vacation in Idaho). We figured their group was short a few family members so we moved in on the vacancy. It turned out to be just right! There was a cool breeze, we had some shade and parade action. Raegan wanted to be closer to the street for candy collection so she had a "cute little girl" set up that worked magnificently. She looked so endearing candy was hand delivered to her in large quantities while other children had to beg and scramble in the street.The parade is divided up into non-water entries and water entries. Meaning "WATER FIGHT"! And boy do the Toblers know how to water fight! They come prepared with an arsenal of water and water shooters. We brought an umbrella due to past experiences with enormous water trucks and such. Mike was "sharing" a shooter with Raegan for about a minute and she jumped into the action with the "big guys" like a real trooper. Zach was inclined to protect those of us who weren't all that excited about getting soaked. And SOAKED is exactly what Rae was and she was proud of it! After the parade we retreated to the coolness of home and basically vegged and napped. Then we were invited to our buddies home, Kathy and Tom Ely. They live down the street from us and have the largest back yard on the block with a pool. The water was perfect and the crowd developed into a full blow party and barbecue. After food festivities we made our way to the Veterans Memorial Park, and managed to score our usual cool spot, where the fireworks are all but in your face. We love it that way.
We topped the night of with firecrackers in front of our house. We live on the 4th of July Party Street, I tell ya! Our neighbors on either side of us had gobs of safe and sane works. Mike was having firework envy. Another of our favorite families joined us for all of the firework fun, the Cox's.

We are so blessed to live in a country where we are free. I am grateful for the church and mostly for its members who are such great friends and family members.