4th of July Weekend

What a weekend! It started on Friday night with the girls in the Patriotic Sing. What a wonderful event. A wonderful way to celebrate our country's birthday!

The girls with the poster they made, with absolutely, NO help from mommy or daddy!

Getting ready to sing.

O getting a little sleepy. We thought for sure she would fall over. Thank goodness for big sister.


Saturday morning was the 4th of July Parade! The girls were on the Patriotic Sing Chorus float! O was so excited to be able to join her sister this year. They had a great time. Mommy and daddy, on the other hand, had a very long wait watching for them in the parade. They were about 5th from the end.

The girls were a little disappointed they did not get to see the parade....being in it and all. Not to worry...mommy took plenty of pictures for them. Here are just a few...

There they are! The BIG RED TRUCK!!! YEAH! A very long 2 hours later.

We had a wonderful BBQ dinner at my parents house. (daddy was working) We took a walk after dinner then the girls and I headed home just as fireworks were going off.

We saw fireworks as we drove home, but it's not the same. I had told the girls we could stop. We found a perfect new spot. Up the hill from our house, where we had seen the cowboy riding at sunset. It turned out to to be the best little spot. We saw all the fireworks, from Santa Clara to Morgan Hill. The girls loved it. They want to go back to "our spot" next year, hopefully with daddy.


Today, the girls and I did a little gardening. I'm not good at knowing how many flowers to get for a given spot or what to put together, etc. We'll see how I did....we're not finished yet.

First was the planter box on the front porch. I do hope these flowers do well here. They are so pretty. Gotta remember to water them. That may help.

Next was this little strip of lawn by the mail box. I want to put flowers here, so we had to remove the lawn...ah, weeds....dead stuff. That took one hour. The girls did help. They were great! I wanted to stop after less than half way (it was already late & close to dinner). The girls wanted to finish. They wanted to plant at least one flower. So we continued. I'm glad we did.

Our new Lavender plant. Pretty.... It should fill that little section. They get pretty big. At least my mom's Lavender plant does.

These are the rest of the flowers we bought for this section. I hope they fill in nicely after they are all planted. This is the part I'm not good at. I'm also hoping I bought the right plants to do the whole layering thing....large to small. We'll see.

I'm pooped.