4th of July...

We had a great day celebrating the 4th of July! Matt and I started our day by running the Watermelon Classic 5K and Anna Lauren ran the tot trot (sort of). We had lunch at Chick-fil-A and thanks to receipt day, we get to go back and get our same meal FREE (hence the reason we had lunch at Chick-fil-A). Then we napped before going to the pool for a little while. And to top the day off, we met the Mulhollen's at Liberty Park for fireworks. It was a fun day for all...including Nanna, who came to watch Anna Lauren run her first race!

Anna Lauren drinking a little water and waiting on her race to start...look at that look...she looks as if she is really focusing on her race. All we heard all morning was...I want to race, I want to race, I want to race. Poor thing, her race was last so she had to wait a little while.

Check her out...running skirt, race number, watch, and her FAST Nike tennis shoes!

Matt and Anna Lauren discussing her race...she is at the start line. Her Nanna, the track star, has taught her to say...ready, set, bootie in the air, go...as if she is coming out of blocks on a track. Anyway, that is what she is doing with her bootie in the air.

Warming up getting ready for her race...I love this picture because both of her feet are in the air!

So...here we are at the real race...as you can see, I'm dragging her...she did not like it. One reason being she saw the medals and wanted it before she ran so she was mad she could not have it. And...she really doesn't like a lot of attention / chaos...so when all the people gathered around she got unhappy quick.

Still unhappy and not wanting to run...

Yes...this is what she did the whole time...thank goodness it was short!

Later we realized she was also mad because she didn't get to run where Mommy and Daddy ran...she wanted to run through the finish line. So I took her through the finish line even though they were tearing it down.

And then...we realized she was still mad that she didn't get to run where Mommy and Daddy ran so we took her to part of the race course and let her run...and she ran, and ran, and ran. This is Anna Lauren running with Nanna (her Nanny as she says).

And then she ran some with her Daddy...and of course, she was all happy now and ready to go home.

I just couldn't leave out a picture of our "redneck" child...we were all hot when we got home so her Nanna took her outside to play with the ice from the ice chest we had taken. And yes, she was in her panties and medal...at least she was in the "fenced" back yard!

This is where the kids were at the end of the firework show, and I thought it was too cute to not take a picture. Stevie and Parker on left and Matt and Anna Lauren on right. Anna Lauren "loves" Parker, and we had so much time visiting with them for a little while last night while watching the fireworks.