Sunday, July 5, 2009

Balloons, Swimming, Arts Fest

I LOVE, LOVE the 4th of July!!!! I LOVE the atmosphere, the colors, the barbeque's, the festivities, celebrating freedom, LOVE it all!! (Hence all the posts and pictures to follow). My sister and her family flew in the day before from Texas, we were so excited to have them here for the 4th this year. Caleb was BEYOND excited to see his cousins Jeff and Nate. We started things off with heading to the balloons at 6am on Friday morning. It was a beautiful morning. My sister Stephanie and her family, my parents and Kyle and Heather joined all of us. I love going to the balloons. The kids had so much fun! We used to go growing up and I loved it. It is such a fun tradition. We walked around and watched them all inflate and take off, then Ky and Tommy headed to McDonald's to grab breakfast for everyone. We chilled and listened to the music for a while and all the little boys wrestled with the "older" boys. After we headed home to let Bailey nap, Caleb went home with Grandma and Grandpa so he could play with his cousins. They went swimming. After Bailey woke up we headed to my parents and all had lunch before heading out to the Arts Fest. Later that evening we headed to my niece Jaycie's baptism.



We couldn't get the kids to turn around for a picture.


My sister Tammy, Nate and Caleb
Bailey loved the Pig Balloon The Texas crew

Tam and I



Best shot of the day...just a LITTLE excited.
Fascinated

Uncle Ky and Caleb





Caleb and Nate on the jet skis'
Going down the Dinosaur Slide at the Arts Fest

Daddy and Bailey

2 comments:

stephanie said...

Great balloon shots. It was a really fun time at the Festival. Hope to have my pics up to blog soon.

Craig Smith said...

We loved looking at all these pictures. The one of Jeff is awesome! That was such a perfect morning. So glad it all worked out.