4th of July Weekend '12

We had a great Fourth of July.

There's nothing about the 5th that makes me want to get out of bed & go into work but I did it.

Here's a small recap of what we did to celebrate our Independence.

On Monday night, I got my nails lookin' all festive:)

(Pinterest inspired.)

Tuesday night, we had a cookout with a few neighbors. 
We hung out mostly accross the street at Phil & Becky's. 

They had BBQ & hot dogs and everyone brought a side dish.

I made Macaroni Salad & Diet Coke Brownies.

We swam, ate way too much food, & set off a few fireworks at the end of the night.

I will add pictures later.

Wednesday morning we woke up early to get to the Ft. Thomas Parade where we rode on my companies float.  I don't have pictures of that yet either.  I actually used our real camera a lot this weekend instead of my iPhone and haven't uploaded the pictures yet.  Until then, here are a few pictures of the Memorial Day Parade that we were in since I never posted them.

I work for a distributor of Service Station Equipment, so my boss has an old restored fuel truck that he drives in the parades & has a very nice covered float that he pulls behind it.  Ironically, after the parade on the way back the truck ran out of gas!!  How does that happen?  We ended up walking a ways back to our car.  After we made it to the car, we went to lunch at Larosa's with Creag's parents & brother then headed home for naps.  We all definitely needed them after braving the heat for the parade.  Later in the evening we went to Dixie Chili for dinner then made our way over to Red, White, and Blue Ash for fireworks.

Here are a few pictures.

I want to thank all of the American Soldiers along with their families who sacrifice every day to keep this country safe.  I am very proud to be an American!!

Happy Independence Day!

XOXO,

Jess