24th of July

The kids and I drove up to Enterprise early on the morning of the 24th.  Randy had to work a few hours so he come up after lunch.  The parade was first and the kids were ready with the bags to gather as much candy as the could. 

Waiting for the parade to start

Filling up their bags

After the parade, we went to grandma and grandpa Simkins' house to let the kids play for a little bit before going over to great grandma Simkins' for lunch.  My grandpa would have been 92 this year.  It's hard to believe that he's been gone for 5 years now.  I still feel like he will be sitting on the couch whenever I go to his house.  I sure miss that man!

Lunch, of course, was good even though they opted to not do dutch oven potatoes.  After lunch, Andrea had a bunch of water toys for the kids to play with so there was a big water fight mainly with the kids but some big kids like Luke and Scott got in on the fun too.

Alex chasing Luke

Halen had so much fun

We had to break up the water fight a little early so we could go over to the races.  Mia was up to race first.  She's walking pretty good now around the house but I don't put shoes on her very often so I didn't know how she'd do in her little sandals.  She also hates the grass so I didn't know what she'd do.  Once they said "go", she took a couple steps then didn't know what to do either so I just walked her the rest of the way to the finish line.

Alex would have won but he ran on a diagonal so he took 2nd

I love this pic of dad and Alex

Halen ran the fastest he'd ever run at the races.  He did a great job!

After the races, Ben and Marsha did Cassidy's birthday party at grandma's house so we ate some cake and ice cream and visited for a while before we all started heading for home.