Our 4th of July

This 4th of July was so fun! I'll focus on the parade since that was the major thing we did. At 9:15am we left to drive the couple miles to the downtown parade. We found a spot on Main street and waited maybe 10 minutes or so until the parade had made it to our area. I kind of expected Nicholas and Celia to want to get out of their stroller, but they did so well. They sat in the stroller and ate a couple snacks here/there and were very good. :)
They were happy to wave their flags around in the beginning. I noticed that their facial expressions went from confident to quizzical once the parade started. They looked like they were thinking, "What is going on?"
Here are the before and after expressions - can you tell which is which?



I took some photos of the area. The people lined up along main street and the post office (thought it looked pretty). I like our down town area. This is where the farmers Market is on Saturdays from 7:30am-11am in the summer.


Our friend (Jason's best friend) Matt, was in the parade as well. He has been wanting to get Jason with his water soaker this summer, and here he pulled up to us during the parade in his go-kart and said "I've been waiting for this" and he sprayed Jason with the water all over. Everyone around us was laughing and Matt said "What'cha gonna do about it?" and he drove off. He's gonna get it now! It got hot in the sun, so Jason actually enjoyed the cool-off. lol


I had to take a picture of the person in the beer-costume. Only in Wisconsin. For those of you that are not from or haven't been to Wisconsin, we have more bars than churches (and we are considered the midwestern bible belt).


Here Nicholas was hiding behind his flag.


And 5 month old cousin Lauren being so cute with Grandma!


And look at this abomination. Now, this may have some use on a farm, but having flags hanging from it and as it was considered an actual 'float' (standards have taken a dive) I just had to get a picture of it.


And the one token horse. Isn't there some rule that there needs to be like 6 or 9 horses in a parade? This horse seriously was lonely, but left the parade with quite a complex, I'm sure.

The parade was over at about 10:30/10:45. N&C stayed in the stroller the whole time :) Yay!
We look forward to next year's parade.

This morning Jason went to help my sister and her fiance move, so I took N&C to the farmer's market. People are so friendly and stop and talk about the 'twins' all the time. I actually don't mind it at all. I wonder if since we have so many people approach us being friendly if that rubs off on N&C? Will they have a brighter outlook on strangers? Will they be more outgoing themselves?
Here are highlight comments from the market:
"Aren't you glad it wasn't three?"
"OOOhhhh a boy AND a girl! Those are rare!" (overheard as I walked away)
"Aren't they adorable"

We picked up a basket of strawberries, fresh leaf lettuce, baklava from a Greek woman, and 2 chocolate chip cookies. Yum! We walked to the library from the farmer's market to get a Raffi CD but they were closed this saturday for the holiday.

Hope you had an excellent weekend! :)