4th of July, Part 2

Wow...What a great fun family-filled weekend!  We had a great time playing with our neighbors on Friday night. 

On Saturday morning, mommy got a little "quiet" time and ran 15 miles while daddy got the girls ready for the parade.  We went to the Carol Stream parade...it was nice small town parade.  We really like living in such a small community!  Abigail saw the trucks (her biggest fear right now) coming and tried to get us to leave, but she stuck through it and enjoyed the rest of the parade (except the SCARY clowns!!!!!!).  We ended the day back at Carol Stream events.  We parked at the fireworks (so we had PRIME parking) and headed out to sushi (and delicious pitchers of mojitos). Then we went to the Carol Stream concert and ended the night watching fireworks!  Abigail has been so scared of the fireworks going off during the nights but really enjoyed them at the festival (I think it had to do something with the cuddling she got to do with daddy).  These were Caitlin's 1st fireworks and she loved them!!!  However, when they got loud, we were saying that Caitlin was probably wishing we hadn't put the tubes in her ears...they must have been extra loud to her!

Sushi

Caitlin is standing on EVERYTHING! 

Sunday we braved the heat and headed to Brookfield Zoo.  It was.....HOT!!! 

By Sunday afternoon, we were all exhausted and decided to stay in and not do fireworks again.  However, that didn't stop us from a little DQ run!

On Monday, Abigail had swim lessons so the whole family headed to the pool. While Abigail did her lessons, Caitlin did private lessons with daddy!  She seems to love the pool as much as her big sister!  We stayed at the pool all morning.  The highlight for me was watching Abigail play with other kids.  Those who know Abigail know she doesn't really play with other kids, she's always just observing (except for Reese and Chase of course, her buddies).  However, she played with 3 girls today and it was great to see.  Caitlin, on the other hand, will probably the social butterfly always playing with kids...but today she choose to stay by mommy and daddy!

We ended the great family weekend by having both our parents over for a cookout.  I didn't take any pictures (so sad) but I think it's fun for the girls when both their grandparents are together...we are so lucky that our parents get along so well!!!!  One day, we are gonna have a BIG backyard and have our families over all the time for real cookouts!

It was a really great family weekend.  We were together the whole weekend...and reallly got to spend quality time together!!!  Next week is our stay-cation in Indiana so lots more fun family times to come!!!!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July!