Monday, July 9, 2012

Fourth of July Festivities

In a very exciting turn of events, we had TWO activities to go to for the Fourth of July!!  As the girls said: It was the most awesome day ever! Boating, Hot Dogs, a Festival, and Fireworks!!

One of our neighbors has a lake house that is about 40 minutes away and they had several of the neighborhood people over for the day. These neighbors have a little boy Ryan who is just a couple of months younger than the girls and will be at the same bus stop as the girls for school this upcoming year.

Then late afternoon we headed over to Port Allen which is right across the MS river from Baton Rouge where they were having a festival to meet some friends for the fireworks.  In a crazy turn of events, these new friends turned out to really be an old friend.  D had met one of his co-workers and his wife and thought that I would really get along with his wife.  So she and I had been texting and emailing back and forth and trying to come up with a time when we could get together.  And during that time, she looked me up on Facebook and realized that we actually went to a summer program together for a month after our junior year of high school.  What a totally small world!  And smaller too because we are now going to the same Sunday school class with them as well.

The girls on the big blue lagoon floaty anchored near the dock
D with all the 4 year olds. 
Taking Brooke for her first jet ski outing.  She loved it!
Taking Audrey for her first jet ski outing.  She also LOVED it!
Heading out for a boat ride - the girls' first.
A better picture of the 4 year olds. They will all ride the bus together next year. Anya will be in kindergarten but Ryan will be in pre-K with the girls.
My three loves at the festival.  You can sort of see that we are seated at the top of the levee.
Me and the girls - I like to be represented on here once and a while.
The whole Hadden fam

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