Happy 4th of July 2009

Happy 4th of July 2009. We had a great 4th, and a busy one! We started our day at the Excelsior kids parade parade on Lake Minnetonka. We met our friends Stacy and Mike there. Their twins Nick and Elle are in the same class as Hannah at school. ( Elle pictured above). The kids had a great time dancing to kids music, eating popsicles and playing around. All the kids decorated their wagons and bikes to walk in the parade, it was really cute. After the parade, we went back to Stacy and Mike's house for lunch along with some other families and let the kids play for while. It was a lot of fun.We left around 1:30pm to get Hannah home for a nap, and ready for the rest of her day's activities!



In the evening, we went to Heidi and Micheal's house for a BBQ. The food was yummy, and the girls had a great time playing in their bounce house in the backyard, as well as dressing up like princesses!!! We brought a few fireworks with us, and let the girls watch the fireworks on the end of the driveway. We quickly learned we didn't have very good judgement by letting Hannah hold a sparkler. We left evening with an ice pack and a little blister on her finger. As Hannah told us, "the candle hurt her". Definitely bad judgement on our part, but she is just fine and this morning when she got up she asked where her "ouwee" was. Once we got home from Heidi and Michael's, Hannah kept asking us to see "big fireworks". We told her it was too late and it was time for bed. After a quick back, and a popsicle to remedy her finger, we thought, what the heck. We headed out of the house at 9:45pm and went to Wayzata where we sat on the dock on Lake Minnetonka and were able to see fireworks from 4 different cities. The best part was there were no mosquitos, and no traffic! We were home by 10:30pm. Hannah was a trooper, and enjoyed her 4th of July!!



I thought this was too cool not to share, Heidi made jello and decorated the plate with the girls names, Bella, Mia and Hannah... so cute!!
Happy 4th of July everyone!!