Summer Week 5

This week we bowled with friends and had a great time!  The local bowling alley has a kids club where bowling is free every day - so even better!  We'll be back for sure.


 Then we celebrated the 4th of July in style.  I love the Dollar Tree :)
 Our day started downtown where Brian ran the Bluegrass 10,000 - the local 10K (6.2 miles).
 He did great, finishing right around 50 minutes, but 45 seconds behind his department chair.  Well played move, Bri, hahaha.  We also ran into another friend's advisor who said "This is a great way to start the day - now I'm off to spend the rest of the day writing a grant."  You gotta love hard core academia.  Thank goodness Brian didn't have to work, like he has in year's past!
 Grant couldn't resist an up close inspection of a parked trash truck. 
 Then we headed to our neighborhood's over-the-top parade.


 We gave it a good effort, but didn't win any bike decorating awards.  Haley took the news better than last year's defeat.  Perhaps another $10 at dollar tree will pull us to the top for next year.
And what's a parade without a gorilla on a motorized scooter?
 That night we bought our first fireworks ever (other than sparklers) and headed to a friends party.  The kids loved playing waterballons.

 And decorating their bags for the pinata. 

 Plus, there were lots, and lots of fireworks.  I've never seen so many things.  The whole neighborhood was alive with crazy stuff.  It was pretty cool.  So cool we even let the kids stay up until 10:30 - a very, very rare treat if you're a Noehren child! 
 These lanterns (like the ones in Tangled) were pretty cool!
Happy 4th of July!!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Your neighborhood is definately were the fun is at!!
July 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Fun,fun,fun!!! Love the sunglasses!
July 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Anonymous said…
You have a very fun neighborhood!

Cara
July 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM
Andee said…
What a fun day you had!! I love how the 4th just brings people in their respective communities together! So awesome! And FYI I thought your bikes were AMAZING!!
July 6, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Jennifer's Kitchen said…
That looks SO FUN!!! What a party. You guys were decked to the nines! You looked awesome. :)
July 7, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Amy said…
So many things to comment on! Okay, so Grant inspecting the garbage truck is SO him--so cute. The kids are cute all decked out, but you gotta love the picture of you and Brian all decked out! I loved the gorilla--awesome. And that's so cool they did the lanterns like in "Tangled". Neat!
July 12, 2011 at 4:10 PM
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