the family browne.: fourth of july week (the day of).

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

fourth of july week (the day of).

this is going to be all out of order because my posts are contingent upon my camera uploads (downloads?) and we all know how awesome i am at that.

fourth of july week was one of the best weeks ever. the kids and i got home from houston on monday and went to meet justin at work. it was his end of quarter and Q2 is their biggest one, so he was going to have to work super late (he ended up getting home around 1am). we had dinner as a family near his office, then got to let the kids romp for a little while and meet lots of his coworkers. funny.

at this point i'll skip to friday. there was a parade in our neighborhood (lots of the austin 'hoods do them, but we didn't know and had never participated in one) that started right around the corner and moseyed up to the elementary school. it was unbelievably cute. kids, dogs, adults, wagons, strollers - everyone and everything decked out in red white & blue. i'm not typically the most overtly patriotic person out there, but we got into and will go even more buckwild next year. super cute.

my mom had gotten the kids cute july 4 outfits and they were excited to wear them and hop into their wagon. their wagon also happens to be red & blue, so it was perfectly designed for the occasion.

i had taken ek to the dollar store the day before to get some stuff to decorate their wagon with and they were completely sold out of all gear. crazy. we made do with a few super old decos i had lying around from previous fourths. it was not my finest crafting hour by a long shot, but hollis enjoyed eating the paper glitter star, and emme enjoyed bossing hollis around regarding the eating of said glitter stars.

once we at the school, there was ice cream and breakfast tacos and general fun. unfortunately, it was only one breakfast taco per family (totally understandable) and that just didn't cut it for this crew, so we headed out after about an hour of merriment.