Happy July 4th.. .part one "It did not rain on our parade!"

McNeel/Doss 2010 4th of July parade...


Besties....LOVE! I hope to put this on their wedding invitation.
Papa and Emily June. HE came out to support the kids, and was surprised to hear it was cancelled as well....
Monkeys
Emily pretend to be waving at the "Crowd"
My beautiful babies.. although they do not look much like babies anymore.
Cupcakes after all our hard work on the parade route

Meema and EJMy "baby" who is getting so big.

I love this! Look at the blow horns and Hudson and Wyatt nailing the statue!
Run run run
Dancing in puddles
EJ and Zach walking the "parade route"
Handsome Daddies
Brock loving on EJ. EJ was playing with my necklace the other day and asked if she could have it. I said, " Maybe when you get married.. only if I like your husband!" She looked at me and I said "You will be fine marrying Brock or Hudson, do not care which one... not to mention you will get the hook up with a mother in law who loves sparkles as much as you do!" She said, " I marry Brock." Couple days later, " I marry Hudson." I have said this numerous times... there is nothing wrong with arranged marriages.
Brock, Hudson and Wyatt loving the mud puddles
Three amigos
All the boys

My beautiful boy..
So thankful we live in America.. this says it all!



Every year I look forward to the Children's parade. This year was no different, except Wyatt really understood so he was just as excited.... We went to Hobby Lobby weeks ago to buy our decorations anticipating how we were going to decorate the bike and wagon and how much fun it was going to be this year. Emily June still did not understand, except she loved the "sparkle" decorations and her new red tutu! The weather has been rainy all week, but light rain and the paper said even in the rain the parade would be on. Well, they must of changed their minds after we decorated and loaded the wagon, kids dressed, cupcakes made and Meema in tow.... A friend called and said they had canceled it.... Regardless we were determined to have fun, and I did not have the heart to tell the kids so we went anyway! There were a few other parade lovers there so we had our own parade. Thank goodness the McNeel's showed up to my kids it was still the perfect parade. They are precious together and really embraced the parade spirit!