4th of July

We kicked off the 4th of July celebration a day early on July 3rd by going to concert in the park with Nani, Poppa, the Ducotes and Brian & Hollie.  There was a special double header, featuring two bands this afternoon.  Originally, our plan was to stay for the first one (Marine Corps Band) and then head back to our house for dinner but after seeing how much fun everyone was having running around, dancing and enjoying the beautiful weather, the guys volunteered to head back to the house to grill and then bring the food to us.  It worked out perfectly!

Poppa, Cole and Sydney dancing

Dip!

Dancing Queen

Sweet cousins 

The Ducotes brought this fun flag cake

Cheese!

Nani and Poppa spent the night and we were all up ealry on the 4th.  I headed down to the ferry landing to run in the 12k race (7.4 miles for July 4th) and everyone came to cheer me on.  

Almost at the finish and Sydney wanted to run in with me!

Sydney has a lot more energy than I do at this point... 

Cole caught up with us, too.

My running buddies :) 

My goal was under 1 hour and I was pleased to beat it by over 2 minutes - which was 3+ minutes better than 2015!  I'll take it. 

After a quick shower and breakfast, we walked down to check out the parade:

Lots of horses

The parade crew.  We were so glad Ashleigh joined us for the morning!

Star wars!

The kiddos did great in the warm sun for 1.5 hours.  They were entertained by the parade and then the best part, we all took naps after!!  We enjoyed the rest of the day and ended it by watching fireworks on the bay. What a great day.