July 4, 2012

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!  I would like to give a shout out to Jill and wish her a happy 4th of July in blog format!!  I woke up this morning because Mom had made pancakes.  I walked out into my living room and saw that Jill was still at our house!!  She had fallen asleep on the couch and stayed there!  Yay!  So we had pancakes. Mom even made chocolate chip pancakes which was the first time ever!!  They were soooo good! After breakfast, we watched Something Borrowed because we were supposed to do it last night but our shirts took too long and we all fell asleep.  Jill left halfway through to go home and then when we finished, Kelley and I took a shower and put on our brand new patriotic shirts!!!  We quickly did our hair and then headed over to Jill's house!  Kelley packed a cooler full of water and we brought some chairs because it was 105 degrees outside today!  105 DEGREES!!!!  It was so hot.  Sweat was dripping down my body on the way to Jill's house.  Once we were there, we took this awesome picture of us being patriotic!  And then we found out we all wore our red, white, and blue bracelets that Grandma gave us years ago!:

We also all wore the bottom of our t-shirts that we cut off last night in our hair because we're cute :)  Kelley and I had patriotic nails!  Here are our toe nails:

And here are our finger nails:

We splatter painted them using a straw.  It took a while to get the technique down but eventually we got it!  After these pictures, we headed out down Jill's road to go and sit at the end which is one of the main roads the parade goes down.  We found a nice shady spot on a hill that nobody was occupying and it was actually not that hot sitting there!  We ended up getting so much candy because we were by ourselves so people's attentions were just on us.  We put all the candy in our cooler so that it wouldn't melt.  It was so nice watching the parade!  I didn't want it to end!!  And then it did end :(  We walked back to Jill's house and got in my car and drove to the main part of town and walked around by the beach to try to find my grandma but she ended up not going to the parade.  We also stopped in Jill's dad's bus that he drives for the historical society!!  Then we walked back to our car, dropped Jill off at home, and drove to Grandma's house!!  She didn't go in the parade because it was too hot for her so we surprised her at home while she was watching t.v.  She LOVED our shirts and she kept saying how beautiful we were haha :)  We took this picture with her:

She's so cute :)  We stayed for a little while and then went home.  Jill came back over and went swimming and I worked on homework until dinner time.  We ate and then Kelley and I drove to town so she could pick up her paycheck and so I could drop off the movie we rented.  Then we came home and left to go to the fireworks on the lake!!  We met up with Jill once again and took this picture:

Then we went for a boat ride and watched the fireworks.  They were pretty great this year and the finale was awesome!!  We drove around a little bit on the lake and then the boat started sinking head first in the water since a lot of people were up front and we had to run to the back.  It was pretty scary and all our stuff got wet :(  But we made it back without drowning and then Grandma gave us ice cream!  Yay!  Then we left because Mom needs to wake up early and I have another speech tomorrow!  Oh boy.  It was such a great day today though!!