July 4th

We had a long fun day yesterday. Our neighborhood has a full day of activities. In the morning, we took Parker up for games and the bounce house. She LOVES to bounce! I'm starting to conceed on getting a trampoline I think. I don't have pictures of the morning, but maybe I'll have some forwarded to me that I can post.

In the evening, there is a live band around the pool area and at the lake behind the pool, there are fireworks, and people bring their own and shoot those off too. Parker loved dancing to the music and watching the fireworks. When she got sick of that, she played tag and other games with some of the neighbor kids. We were there until 11pm! We had a sleepy child to deal with.


Watching with dad. Parker's observation about the noise:
"This is gonna bother my sleep."

Dancing with friends

At the carnival

More carnival pics coming soon.....

Sea World

I'm going to try to post some chronological pictures of the stuff we did on vacation. Here are some from Sea World:


At a 3d movie w/ cousin

Looking at the Clidesdales w/ another cousin

Walking around. She spent as much time as possible holding hands with someone.

Jumpin' Cousins - Foot update

This was a fun game Parker played until all the big kids got tired of it. This is one of her cousins...Bob's sister's daughter.

I was just reminded that i never gave an update on Bob's foot. He went and got Xrays and nothing is broken. He got good marks for keeping his cuts clean, they were very impressed considering he'd been at the beach for a week.
He received a velcro shoe to limp around in and promptly mowed the yard when he got home!
If you aren't easily grossed out, here's a link to the pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/41254716@N00/MQ6J28
It continued to swell through the week, to the point that his toes didn't touch the ground at times!
You'll notice that he's wearing a dishwashing glove to keep his foot clean from sand and showing off his sunburn from Sea World.

Parker's first sand dollar

She wasn't terribly impressed, but it's a cute picture.

Beach Pic-1

Here is the first of many. I'll try to get them up sporadically during the week. As you can expect, we have a lot to do. We (hoped)expected Parker to have a droopy sleepy lazy day today, but to our (horror) surprise, she's the opposite, running everywhere, thrilled to be home and playing with all of her toys. So today should be a busy day. Bob's going for foot xrays in a while, I'll report the findings when we get them.

We're home

We're home safe and sound! Stand by for photos and vacation recap in the next few days.