We began independence day with an early flag raising ceremony and breakfast. Then we tagged along with the Hansen boys to the Greeley Stampede parade. They aren't allowed to throw out candy any more during the parade route so the kids quickly tired of seeing horses and marching bands. We stayed just long enough to get a slight sunburn.
We then went back to the house to pack everything up and then headed over to my mom's house. We ate some delicious grub (including my much sought after brownies and Caribbean Dump Cake). We spent the entire afternoon and into early evening taking boat rides, swimming and jumping on the tramp when we were tired. The ski boat is broken, so no tubing/wakeboarding/skiing this year.
Evan & Cale (my brothers) invited some of their friends over for the weekend and Payton was in boy-crazy heaven. My brother Ian (based at Davis Monthon in Tucson) came up and Fallon & Zane came over from Utah with Zane's parents & his brother Trace and wife Michelle. My FIL, Jay, and Clint's sister, Courtnee's family spent the day with us as well as Stacey from Nouveau and his daughter, Kristen. With my 5 kids and Kristen & Ryan's 6, we had a full house. Thank you to my Aunt Julie who is awesome about taking pictures at these events!
Zane, his dad, brother and my dad went to the Rockies game. Because they were seated behind the Marlins dugout, we all watched the game from the house to see if we could spot them in the crowd. We did! That was fun for everyone. The game was fantastic and Cole was on cloud 9 when Holliday hit a grand slam to put the Rockies score up to 16 (the Marlins had 17). One more homerun and then a few base hits and the Rockies were the victorious home team winning 18-17. 35 runs...that was an exciting game.
We decided not to battle the traffic this year at lake Loveland, so everyone hopped on the Pontoon boat and headed out to the middle of the lake to watch fireworks. On Saturday, we went back over to my mom's house to hang out with my brother Cale (foolishly living in CA away from us) and we karaoked until after midnight. Because we believe strongly in sharing, Fallon (and family) brought us the stomach flu bug from Utah and we ended our weekend in bed or bent over the toilet. Fun times!
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What fun to spend the 4th at the lake. Sounds like you had a blast and the parade was alright. Thanks for braving the crowds and the walk from the car with us. We had fun.
Brandon
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