Happy 4th of July

I like the 4th of July, it has always been one of my favorite holidays growing up. I think when I was little, I just loved the idea of being able to stay up late and wait for the firework show to began. One of the traditions we have is traveling down to Fairfield for the annual parade. It is a simple parade and the kids look forward to it every year. They love meeting family there and of collecting candy thrown there way.

Since we have to drive from so far in the morning, Mema always heads out early and scouts out a great location for everyone. Brody was already impressed with all the firetrucks and police units passing by. This year Brad and Ryan were in a SWAT car, but of course I was so busy staring at the firetrucks, I missed getting a picture of them. There is just something about those trucks, well actually we thought we saw someone else we knew on the truck :)

We even had a Pepa sighting at the parade!

Recently we saw Ice Age 3, which was hilarious, seriously. So we decided to take Bryan to see it after the parade. When we were done we headed over to the Collins house for a BBQ. Olivia helped the kiddos decorate cookies for everyone. Good thing we love those kids, because I saw Tyler lick the sprinkles off his fingers several times in between adding more sprinkles to his cookies. Yummy!

After dinner it was off to Vacaville to watch the firework show.

Grandma and Grandpa Collins have 8 grandchildren now, soon to have 9 though. One of the joys of being 8 months pregnant is you make a great pillow during a firework show.


Of course part of our celebration is wearing anything red,white, or blue. Mema made the kids cute necklaces and Olivia made the kids cute headbands to wear. After Olivia gave Cambree her headband, she asked her where her wand was. Cambree is such a girlie girl.
Happy Birthday America, we are so blessed!