Fourth of July

This year, like last year, our Fourth of July kicked off at the second annual Remington Park Fourth of July Parade. Last year the babies were bald and much fatter. We were still getting adjusted to life with twins. Boy has life changed. What an exciting journey each new day brings. New laughs, new smiles, new tears from all. But if you look closely you can see that some things have not changed...look at the serious expression on Parker's face this year and last year. I promise he shares plenty of smiles, just not on command. He does things on his terms.

The Remington Park Fourth Of July Parade is where the neighborhood kids and their families get together dressed in red white and blue. Everyone is encouraged to decorate their strollers, wagons, bikes, and dogs. We then make our trek around the streets of the neighborhood led and followed by a police car.

In the afternoon, we were invited to the other Schmidt's(Christina's parents) house for a BBQ! Yum, yum! Good times. We left around 7:30pm to return home and catch some neighborhood fireworks at the lake. Sydney loved them. Parker was a little apprehensive of the noise at first but once he realized the noise was not going to hurt him, he relaxed and enjoyed.

Below is a video of the wagon ride down to the park to meet for the parade. The kids were so cute waving their flags! Proud to be Americans!!!