Fabulous 4th

Happy Birthday USA! We celebrated the 4th of July by going to the Conyers 4th festival at the horse park. It was the first time we have ever been to this celebration.

Chasen and I rode a large model train. He was shouting "All aboard!" and "Choo Choo!" the whole time. My mom might recognize the passengers in front of us! We might have a future engineer on our hands! He also loved the fire trucks. Perhaps a future fire-fighting engineer? We actually couldn't get him away from the fire trucks. Finally, after 30 minutes we had to rip him away kicking and screaming. We then went to the bounce houses that they had-that was a big disappointment. They charged $3 for each bounce house. And the guys taking the money would just sit there and count the cash so it was a little creepy. I've never had to pay for a bounce house at any festival, and it was the only thing we had to pay for there as far as kids were concerned. Chasen didn't understand that he couldn't go to every bounce house so it was a little sad....

It was really hot and we couldn't imagine waiting an hour for the fireworks so we invited ourselves over to the Miller's house. We all went out on the flat top boat pulling the canoe and enjoyed some really awesome fireworks on the lake. I was really surprised that the fireworks were that nice. They were like the professional ones! I didn't feel like we missed a thing leaving the horse park early. And the best part happened when Joy fell out of the boat into the lake as we were getting out! She was OK, just really wet! The whole time we were worried that Chasen was going to fall in, we never imagined Nana would nose dive into the lake!