Wallace Family Reunion: Part IV (4th of July!)

Wallace Family Reunion: Part IV (4th of July!)

Friday, October 9, 2015

Yes, I'm posting about the 4th of July when it's almost September. Oops.

Update: I started drafting this at the end of August, clearly. I'm now finishing and posting it mid-October. Double oops.

July 4th kicked off our Wallace Family Reunion (so why this is post 4, I really don't know. Basically because I'm a blogging mess right now and someday posts will come in the proper order and way more promptly ha!). We spent the day BBQ-ing, swimming, fireworking (definitely not a word), parading, and all the other typical all-american things you do on the 4th of July! Unfortunately, I still couldn't get in the water from just having had Zoe less than a month ago so I was so bummed to not be able to swim! We didn't dip Zoe's brand new little toes into the (pretty cold!) water but the boys had a blast :)

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We celebrated America.

We celebrated America.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Yeah, it was like a month ago but we did it and it needs to be documented.

Welcome to the next 50 blog posts of catch-up.

This year we celebrated the 4th in Utah because a lot of our California family was down with a flu bug. We were headed to Utah on the 5th anyway as a stop-through for our family reunion in Colorado so we just opted to head out a couple days early and celebrate the 4th with my siblings in Utah!

We started the day like this...

And then we really started the day with the amazing Provo 4th of July parade. You guys. People stay the night in tents on the street to get a good spot. For real. For an Independence Day parade.

We opted for showing up halfway through the parade instead of spending the night ha. And we still got a seat in the shade?

Jack loved the parade (mostly the horses, motorcycles, police cars, and fire trucks - why did we go to a parade?) and Phillip loved hanging out and having a selfie photo shoot with mom.

Next up was partying with my sister's in-laws at their annual BBQ/swim party.

 

Good food, great company, and the boys were nice & exhausted after a full day of swimming. Thumbs up for that.

 And we obviously finished off the day with fireworks and sparklers.

Which Jack hated.

He mostly watched fireworks inside on TV instead. Maybe next year?

Enter our many attempts at a cool sister fireworks picture:

Not so much.

Aaaand. I just can't leave out my favorite quote of the day.

"THIS IS ALL FOR YOU AMERICA!" -at the top of Kelli's lungs in the middle of fireworks.

until my next very late, very photo-heavy blog post.

xoxo

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4th of July

4th of July

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Better late than never, right?

First of all we have zero family pictures from the 4th which is awesome.

Second of all, I have barely any pictures at all. Even more awesome.

But let it be known that Jack DID celebrate his first 4th of July.

We started with a pancake breakfast at our church

where Jack got to sit in Grandpa's Model A Ford (that is what it is, right? ha)

since there was an old cars display at the breakfast.

Please, please ignore the awful way-too-short hair cut.

It has grown out now and is much better.

There was also face-painting and Jack Jack got this cute star on his face.

But you will have to excuse the horrible picture...that baby doesn't even look like Jack haha!

Then the parade. No pictures.

I'm not gonna lie - the Rancho Cordova parade is pretty lame so you aren't missing out with no pictures.

Oh and PS it was THIS hot.

 ...with 50% humidity. That's a LOT for Sacramento 

[and for anyone and when it's 110 degrees].

Then we watched home fireworks at Grandma & Grandpa Wallace's.

Jack got scared once or twice but no tears were shed

and he mostly enjoyed them.

SO tired.

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