After dinner, the neighbors from #2 invited us over to have strawberry shortcake with them. We went over, let Brylee be the silly little girl she is, and had delicious dessert and great conversation with them. Great people, and now I want to figure out a time to have them over for dinner ourselves!
Sunday evening (again after Cary got off of work):
Small Town had a Spaghetti dinner to raise money for the local library, so of course we had to go! The food was pretty tasty (how wrong can you go with spaghetti???), and we saw several new friends, including our neighbors (#2), Ms. Lizabeth (the former storyteller), and Claudia and her family (sweet people we met through the library)
Brylee ate well, especially the chocolate ice cream I got for her. She was messy, but everyone proclaimed that she was cute, so the mess to clean up was ok. :o)
Our town's fireworks show was on Sunday evening, and the neighboring town's was on Monday. Brylee has yet to see fireworks, so Cary and I were plotting out where to go to get the best view. And an nice surprise was that Oma and Opa joined us!
Brylee did great, and held on tight to me or her Opa during the entire show, and even when we got home, she pointed up to the sky and said, 'boom!' and 'wow!'.
Independence Day:
blurry I know, but I love the smile on her face:
Just about the entire town was out there for the duck race!
And cue the ducks! (insert William Tell Overture here):
GO #201!!!
And the winner is: (not #201....)
I took a moment to scan through these ducks to see if I could see our number, more out of curiosity of what color it was than anything. No luck. Then again, this is only about 1/6 of the ducks from the race!
Parade time!
First were the classic cars:
Not all of the classic cards, but enough to give you an idea...
And now for the floats/fancy rides:
What a wonderful way to spend the Independence day holiday! Family, friends, water (squirted at the crowd from various parade patrons), good food, and a great new way of seeing the holiday (through a child's eyes)!
A special thank you to Brenda and Gary for joining us Sunday and Monday. It was a very pleasant surprise and great to have that time with you!
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