Oh my goodness! What a fun day of celebrating! We spent the morning and early afternoon with our friends Tim, Mary Beth and Hannah. Sarai and I met Hannah and Mary Beth in our mom's group and became fast friends. Mary Beth found a parade south of us about 25 minutes in Vernon Hills and Tim figured out all the logistics. We met up at 8 and made our way to the parade. Neither of our families having gone before, we weren't sure what to expect but it was a wonderful parade and I think the girls really enjoyed themselves. Plus we couldn't have asked for nicer weather today! We saw firetrucks both retired and new, a man on stilts and a man on a unicycle, all different kinds of floats, cheerleaders, bands and we even saw Elmo. I think the entire parade was almost an hour and half long. Oh, and lots of people were throwing candy from their cars and floats so we collected a nice little pile :-) After the parade we headed back to our place for BBQ chicken, pasta salad and homemade strawberry ice cream with brownies. Need I say more! It was such a great day and so much fun to spend it with friends. Now Sarai is fast asleep napping and Hannah went home to take a nap too. Hopefully it will warm up enough this afternoon for Sarai to go swimming in her pool daddy filled up yesterday! The girls were hoping to take a dip after lunch but the water was still a bit chilly. Hope everyone had a great holiday as well. Enjoy the pictures from our day and God Bless America!
Hannah brought her wagon along so she and Sarai could ride in it on the way to the parade. Thanks Hannah!
Hannah and Sarai enjoying the parade
Clapping for the bands
Just a cute picture of Hannah enjoying the day
Neat old firetruck
The mommies enjoying the parade with their girls
Everybody smile!
Worn out towards the end of the parade. She needed some snuggle time with mommy :-)
Hannah and Sarai loving on each. I'm so glad they are such good friends.
Uncle B (also known as Uncle Puppy) and Aunt Wena bought Sarai a really cute outfit while they were out in San Diego a few weeks ago. She looks pretty darn adorable in it!
I think she was giving her baby a kiss but it looks like she is doing mouth to mouth resesitation.
She found one of my old hats in a box the other day and decided to wear it around the house. Clearly it is too big for her tiny head but she has had a lot of fun playing with it.
Just one of the cute ones I couldn't resist posting! She loves wearing my flip flops :-)
I will try to get some more posts up soon as we have lots of exciting things to tell! Like our kids we lived with in Charlotte, Craig and Erin, came to visit last week and we are under contract on a house. Life has been exciting!
