"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein

Our Independence Day was great. We started out the holiday by lighting a few fireworks on the 3rd at home. Of course Mike got a chance to express his artistic freedom and create Lilly's name on our back step with smoke bombs ;) Lilly and I went to the local freedom festival and cruised the different booths and climbed up the free jump house slide. Lilly liked the slide, me.... not so much. I seriously thought it was going to tip over. After I was off of the slide my world was in vertigo for about 2 minutes. Lilly was fine :) I am not a ride person, I'm usually the baby holder and bag watcher. Unfortunately, Mike had to stay home and work on some projects for school. On the 4th we got up early to watch the hot air balloons. There were about 25 different balloons, our favorites were the piggy bank and Smokey the Bear :)

We then loaded up Bryn and headed out to my parents town to catch the local small town parade. I drove, so we made it there on time :) Lilly loved collecting candy from the floats and charmed all of the people around us. She is such an outgoing little girl, she isn't afraid of anyone and really thrives off of being around people. We ended the night by going to the rodeo. Lilly enjoyed the mutton bustin' and the bull riders. She was totally thrilled with the fireworks show at the end of the rodeo. It was a fun holiday and I am sad that it's over and back to normal life. Fortunately, Lilly started swimming lessons today. So we have another fun thing to keep us busy the next two weeks while Mike finishes up summer term.