4th of July

Lollipop Hunt

Jelly bean on a spoon race

Patriotic girl!

Watching the parade

We took the girls up to Catonsville ( my hometown and home of the world famous 4th of July parade) for the 4th of July. Josh has been working up there 2 days a week as he transitions to a new full time position up there sometime in the near future. Raegan has been asking to go to a parade and fireworks so it worked out well that we could go up there. Unfortunately on the way up on monday morning Josh got an urgent work call on his cell phone and he had to go into work. He ended up working for an hour in the morning and then had to go back in the afternoon and stayed until 9 at night! We were all really bummed that he had to miss out on all of the 4th of July festivities but we made the best of it. We are thankful he has a good job ( and now has a job that will be moving us back up to Baltimore!). When we arrived up there after Josh went into work I took Raegan to the games at the high school. I remember going to them as a child ( and winning a trophy on at least one occasion) so it was fun to take her. She cleaned up in the lollipop "hunt" and she also played in the "jellybean on a spoon" race. She had a lot of fun and Karis took a nap as I strolled her around the high school as we were waiting for Josh to come pick us up. After lunch we walked up to the parade. Both of the girls really seemed to enjoy the parade. I thought Karis might get scared with all of the loud sirens but she didn't. Raegan especially enjoyed it this year. After the parade we walked to a picnic at the house of some of my parents long time friends. Raegan really enjoyed playing with all of their grandchildren. She is getting very social as of late. Every child she meets is her new friend. She didn't want to leave all of her "new friends" but we finally got her to leave once Karis was ready for bed. I was hoping Josh would get off of work in time so we could take Raegan to the fireworks but he didn't. Luckily my parents neighbors next door always set off fireworks and this year was no different so Raegan got her own little fireworks show and was happy with that. I don't think she had any idea of what a real fireworks show is like so she didn't know what she was missing. All in all it was a fun day even though we really missed Josh being with us! ( and my camera ran out of battery charge when we got to the parade so I didn't get very many good pictures this year, oh well, next year will be better!)