4th of July Weekend

So a couple of weeks ago we celebrated July 4th and had a lovely time doing so, my personal favourite part was singing "God Save The King" at church, in place of the Star Spangled Banner - quite odd - but it made me happy. Other than that we just had a lovely relaxing time, not really dong much other than relaxing, eating and hanging out with family. I thought i'd share some pictures from our weekend - sorry there are so many I just have such a hard time choosing as Poppy is just too cute. A couple of evening prior to the actual 4th we headed over to Jon and Joanne's (friends of Anna's parents) to attend there annual barbecue/concert party. Anna's Dad and some of his friends are in a bluegrass band and once a year they do a mini concert in Jon's back garden and we just all get to hang out, eat some great food and listen to some music. We had a really fun evening, the weather was perfect and Poppy seemed to really enjoy herself. Anna, Tracy and Alison sang a little song together, which was lovely, I would have a video of it if my phone hadn't crashed last weekend causing me to lose all of my pictures etc. Anyway here are some pictures from the festivities.

Jon and Joanne have a huge yard which backs onto a field of sorts, behind this fence were goats and horses - Poppy spent most of the evening trying to get them to come over to her.

Poppy also spent a large portion of the evening carrying around this piece of watermelon. I realize that there are quite a few pictures of her with it - but seriously she held onto it forever.

I don't know what is going on in the picture above - but it was just too cute not to include.

Towards the end of the evening we laid a blanket out and Poppy and I were having fun taking pictures - here are some of them (isn't she adorable?)

On the 4th itself we got up early and headed over to State street for the Murray parade. Even though we got there super early it was really crowded but we got a good spot. Poppy both loved and was scared of the parade. She spent the whole time on my lap and loved waving at the Princesses (the various Miss this, that and the other) and the horses and dogs, she did not enjoy the loud sirens and any of the clowns. I personally enjoyed the huge bag of candy we collected, although most of it was just taffy, come on people - diversify a little. The weather was a little overcast - which was all the better for being outside so long. Anyway enjoy the pics.

This is her scared face - she also has this face when she watches the roller coaster scene in the movie Care Bears - Journey to Joke-A-Lot (her current movie of choice).

Poppy and her cute cousins - just a note - she LOVES her cousins. We were just at Ikea tonight with Maia and Cullen and they had such a blast together. Poppy and Maia spent most of the time holding hands and giggling together.