ReD WHiTE -N- BLuE

What a fun day it turned out to be. We started the morning with a pancake breakfast at JC and Jen Van Cleave's house. Next was the Wellington Parade. Trust me you haven’t seen a parade until you have seen a parade in Wellington. Anything and everything goes… it doesn’t matter how hillbilly the parade is - it’s been a 4th of July tradition for our family for years to spend the morning in Wellington. Justin loves gathering the candy they throw from the cars/floats/tractors etc.

~ Aunt Nadene and Makenna watching the parade ~

~ All it took was 1 sucker and Makenna was happy ~

~ Justin and Jackson Bigge watching the Parade ~

That evening we had our own 4th of July bash in the backyard/house/shop. It turned out to be a lot of fun. We had over 40 people …friends and family join us. We sat on our back patio and had a great view of the City Parks fireworks. It was a late night for the kids and even later for Dwight who thought for a moment he was 21 again! Let’s put it this way he was worthless for about 2 days after the festivities ended.

~ Makenna, Brody Van Cleave and Amber (my niece) riding on the golf cart ~

~ One of my very best friends Heidi and her little man Lucas ~

~ My Grammie Winnifred was here visiting from Kansas and Dwight's Grandma Faye... they were having such a great time talking we couldn't even get them to stop for a picture ~

~ Justin's favorite part of the night ... JC taught him all about fireworks. He called the poppers "BOMBS" and was traumatized when he ran out of them ~