4th of July

It's time I posted about our 4th of July weekend. We had so much fun! It started with our annual neighborhood parade. This time we had the Cub Scouts from our ward lead the parade with the flag. It ends at the house across the street from us, with a fire engine, Popsicles, face tatoos, clown, etc. Ashley won the costume contest. It probably helped that grandmas were the judges.

After errands and naps, we got together with friends at our house for a BBQ, the kids splashed in the wading pool, and the adults played croquet. Then the Lindemanns joined us in a bike ride to our city part to watch the fireworks. Sienna talked all week about how brave she was going to be. During our croquet game the neighbors set off some small fireworks and Sienna made a mad dash for the house and wouldn't come out again. At the park she kept her head covered, but she did look out several times. This is an improvement! Colby and Ashley watched with little expression.

On Saturday, we went on a canoing trip on the Harpeth River with the Edgerton family. We left Ashley with the Lindemanns (who were so kind to watch her all day!) We met at 10 at the canoe rental place. I thought it would be around 3 hours or so. We didn't get out of the river until after 4! The kids were great sports and we had a ton of fun. We stopped several times to swim, fish, throw rocks, eat, etc.
Pictures from the canoe trip are here.