Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Fabulous Fourth

This year we had a super fun, super busy Fourth of July.
We started with the pet parade
The "Star" of the show!
It blows me away how many people come out to this event!!
Star "working the crowd"
Some fish in the pet parade! LOL!
and some very important chickens too
"Best of Show" had to go to this pup though...
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a flying dog??!!
Can you see his little goggles?
Then it was off to the festivities in the park
and the ever popular "fish fling." No winners this year, though :-(
The Hansen's joined us and the girls chilled in the park and listened to some music (not as thrilled about the fish fling as me and the little ones)
Then it was over to Hansen's for a BBQ and swim in the pool

Mmmm! Everything was great!
Good friends! Good times!

When we left Hansen's we saw these baby quail on the side of the road. They were SO CUTE! It was amazing watching them jump up that curb
This little guy was injured. We tried to help him along his way...
Then it was time to break out the fireworks!!
We were fortunate enough to have the West's join us this year which made it doubly fun with double the fireworks
Gabe and Rick had picked out some big ones...

We had enough fireworks to play with for an hour before the show started on the Butte.
What a great time, and an absolutely beautiful night!!
ANOTHER FABULOUS FOURTH!

9 comments:

Sarah said...

It looks like you've been having an amazing summer! And you're only halfway through your summer so far! :) Your 4th looks perfect!

Becky said...

How funny that we both just posted our 4th of July pics! Wow, that was one BRAVE dog flying in the parade! And you guys must have an awesome camera to get such great nighttime pictures of the fireworks. What kind is it?

Aunt Jean's doing pretty well. Thanks for asking! She loves to have us come visit, and we love to go there. It's hard to get her to pose for a picture, though!

Christie said...

Wow beautiful fireworks. Looks like a great day. Nice capture on that last picture.. Love the tail lights of the car. :-)

brittany said...

you know what would have made it the perfect fourth... if we had been there!!!! ha ha. i wish we would have been though. it looks wonderful and i love the flying dog.

Grandma Whiting said...

I will have to hand it to you guys. You know how to take full advantage of events and celebrations and enjoy them to the utmost. Fun memories for your family.

Tricia said...

The flying dog was way to funny, he looks like he is chilling out. You always have something fun going on what a great summer of events.

tracey said...

Afraid I can't take credit for the last picture... it was in the local newspaper.

Unknown said...

I can't believe the flying dog!! What is happening to that city of yours :) Hope things are well

Unknown said...

This is about 5 months after but I want to say that it was really fun and the fireworks were amazing! The parade was really cool and fun. A lot of people attend to it every year.