4th of July Weekend (part 3)

Our neighborhood has a really sweet, old fashioned bike parade and carnival every year for the 4th of July.  The kiddos all meet about a block from our house and ride their bikes to our neighborhood school (another block and a half).  At the carnival there is a petting zoo, pony rides, free drinks and watermelon. All sorts of carnival games and contests.  It is such wholesome family fun.  And we see our neighbors, friends and school mates there:)

All the decorated bikes and wagons and scooters.  I was too lazy to get there in time to photograph the bike parade.  Harry made it in time and I think Kate and Dave brought up the rear.  We were kinda sleepyheads this year.

Kate danced us a storm with the DJ.  She did the twist and the hokey pokey and she turned herself around.

Harry won the bubble blowing contest AND came in 2nd in the hula hoop contest for his age group.  He almost won 1st in that hula hoop contest.  His hoop never fell but he put his foot down during the flamingo challenge at the last second.

I know this is a horrible photo but I had to show you Harry's hula hoop method.  He barely moves.  I am not sure how he does it.

Kate rocked the hula hoop contest and won 1st place in the 6 and under age group! She was ALL business and didn't even stop when the contest was over. She could have competed in the tricks with the older kids too!

She won this lovely teddy bear...

Harry won some stuffed thing too and a ring pop.  I have never been a fan of stuffed animals.

Then it was time for some serious business for the adult hula hoop contest.  You might remember that last year, I tied for 1st in the championship round.  I wasn't feeling it this year and was not going to compete but Harry urged me on as did some neighbors.

I was doing fine for a while but then I lost focus right about HERE when I turned and smiled for the camera....

and I was out. Oh well.  My abs still hurt.  A Dad won!  It was awesome.  A man has never won before.  He was quite good too.  See that booty?  That is my official "Summer of Pie" booty right there.  If you were here last summer, I had the "summer of salad with no dressing" booty (doctor's orders--damn crazy candida diet)!  I definitely see a bigger booty this year. Yeah, that "Summer of Pie" might not have been such a good idea after all! In fact, it might have interfered with my hula hooping abilities:) I mean really what was I thinking when I said we'd make a pie every week?! I did make a blueberry pie today though. And I ate a piece.

After the carnival, Dave took us out to our very favorite Mexican breakfast place on the planet.   YUM, I love my Mexican Omelet (also NOT good for the booty)! Seriously, we LOVE this place.  When we lived in Virginia we used to whine constantly about how much we missed our Taqueria.

I think we swam and recovered from our food comas in the afternoon.  At night we had family movie night and watched "How to eat fried worms."  It was really cute.  Good family flick.  I had to cover my eyes during some of the actual worm eating scenes (no real worms were injured supposedly). Then the boys snuck out to see the fireworks while Kate slept and I watched the Casey Anthony circus trial recaps on TV.  All in all, we had a GREAT weekend.