Carnival Rides

After the parade we headed down to the park so the kids could use the tickets Nana had bought to ride some carnival rides.  Amelia even rode the cars with Alex and Thomas.  She had so much fun, and was not happy when Daddy took her out of the car.  I think all the kids enjoyed themselves, but I was beyond ready to get into the air conditioning!!  We stopped and got lemonade shake-ups and headed home.  Another fun night for us all!!!

Parade Time

Amelia and Hayden kicking in the rocks.

Playing with some ant hills.

They were yelling for Ironman!!

Today we headed back to Nana & Papa's house for the annual parade.  Alex was so excited for the parade.  He loved seeing the firetrucks, police cars, gators, tractors, and marching bands.  Not to mention, the bag full of candy he ended up with.  Amelia ate 3 dum-dum suckers and a Popsicle (at least I know that's what I saw her eat.  It may have been more!!)  The Surratt's came to watch with us, which was a nice surprise.  Uncle Thomas, Aunt Amy, Gabbi, and Thomas walked in the parade for one of Uncle Thomas' friends who is running for State's Attorney, but they joined us when they were done.

Knights Action Park

Today we headed out to Knights Action Park.  Everytime we drive by, Alex is always asking if we can go.  With the weather being so hot (in the low 100's) we figured it was a great time to go and cool off.  Both kids had a great time, and so did Mommy and Daddy.  We got there about 11 and left about 4.  We wouldn't have been there that long if Amelia hadn't decided to take a little nap.  She was so refreshed and raring to go after her nap that we were able to push on.  

Alex was really excited to ride on the paddle boats.  After getting their life jackets on they found out they couldn't because Alex was too little to reach the peddles to help paddle and I didn't want to take Amelia out on the pond.  He settle for the bumper boats instead.  He loved coming over and squirting Amelia and me!!  Alex's favorite part by far was going down the blue waterslide.  Daddy helped him the first few times, but then he stood in line and went down the slide all by himself.  I loved hearing his squeals as he came down.  Before he would even hit the water he was saying he wanted to do it again.  Next year Amelia will be big enough to go down them, but she loved her time in the water nonetheless.

Fireworks!

The kids with their favorite teacher, Miss Lisa.

Checking out the firetruck.

Playing with the light saber Alex conned Papa into buying.

Tonight Grandma and Papa came up and we headed down to the park to play and eat.  Then we headed over to Mr. Galusha's house to watch the Williamsville fireworks.  The kids ended up wanting to get in the pool, so I jumped into the pool with my clothes (like any good Mom would) and ended up jumping in with my iPhone.  She is no more.  We have to go on Saturday to St. Louis to get a new one at the Apple store.  We're going to also go shopping for some new furniture because Daddy is working on making a toy room in the basement and we'll need something to sit on down there!!  Actually I'm going to move furniture from the living room down there and get something new for upstairs.

Anyway, the kids absolutely loved the fireworks.  They weren't scared of the sounds or anything.  We had the best seats in the house.  They literally were shooting the fireworks off right outside of the Galusha's yard. It was amazing!!!

Sleeping Buddies

We took a family nap, but I woke up early.  Don't they look so cute together???  

Drinks all Around

The kids got into the pantry and hauled out the box of Capri Suns.  It's hot enough out, so why not!!!  I should also mention I could have probably used a drink of wrestling with these two cute and sweet children at church this morning.  It was Fr. Kemme's last mass, so the Knights of Columbus were all dressed up for a presentation.  Alex thought they looked like pirates and was speaking very loudly about how there was pirates at church.  I had to carry both of them up for communion and squash several fights over sharing toys. I pray the Lord is blessing me for managing these crazies at church!!!!