Brayden, Cody & Addison: Fourth of July

This year for the fourth we went to my mom's house for the parade in her neighborhood. It's much smaller than our parade and at the end there are two gigantic waterslides for the kids and TONS of food. Cody rode in the wagon this year and Brayden got to ride in his car. Chance, Cole and Abby were in town and they all had their bikes decorated for the big parade.

After the parade and swimming Bill, Mikey and I took all the kids out on the boat. Johnny and JoLynn graciously let us borrow their boat for the summer-what nice parents we have!! This was the first boat trip Bill and I had taken by ourselves so I was a little nervous - I think the last time I drove a boat was in college. Everything went sooo smoothly. The kids had a great time on the UFO - the big three seater tube and Chance and Abby both tried to knee board, it looked more like knee drag, but I think they had fun trying. We found a spot on Lake Austin that wasn't too busy, there were a million boaters out there, not like I expected anything else on the actual July 4th holiday. I give the trip an A+, everyone had fun and the virgin boat trip was a success. I guess that means we can take it out a lot more often now :) I have pictures from the actual boat ride, I think I was so nervous about everything else I forgot the camera, next time I will take pictures.

That night we watched the fireworks from Nanny and G-Daddy's deck. The house across the lake puts on the most spectacular firework show, it is just like being on town lake, only we have our own private showing. This year Brayden actually stayed outside to watch them, he was only scared a little bit.