A few weeks late, yep. But this is, after all, my third favorite holiday and I wanted to share pictures from the day.
If you are local, you know that our weather here in Columbus
has been fab.u.lous. If you are like me and have no interest or time to lay out
at the pool, you will appreciate the breeze and 70s temps. Usually July 4th
in Columbus is HOT, humid and just all around gross, even at 9 AM for the
parade. But this year, the weather was spot on and we were ready for our day
outside!
We moved out of our house 2 weeks before, so we technically
didn’t live in UA anymore. But that wasn’t stopping us from going with our old
neighbors and seeing the over-the-top parade floats and Larkyn’s fave marching
bands that were there. And of course, the old cars and the emergency vehicles
that she hates.
Rhys alternated between sleeping in the car seat and being
held, while Larkyn alternated between pulling the shade completely over her
face because it was too bright or shaking her booty (and cracking everyone up)
to the music.
I don’t know anything about the Worthington parade, but it
better bring it on next year!
We headed over to Uncle Eric and Aunt Shannon’s for some
food, drinks (am I the last one to try Red’s Apple Ale? Yum!) and pool time.
This is when we decided Larkyn should take swim lessons ASAP
before she’s 17 and still afraid to get in water (she still screams bloody
murder when I wash and rinse her hair in the bath). She was juuuust fine
sticking her feet in. And Rhys was content to be passed around and loved on by
all the ladies.
We didn’t see any fireworks this year. Next year, maybe we
will try having Larkyn stay up for them, but it didn’t happen this year!
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