{"id":405,"date":"2009-07-23T22:25:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-07-23T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:25:54","slug":"happy-birthday-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/happy-birthday-u-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday U.S.A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 4th of July!! Sorry we are about 3 weeks late in blogging about it!\u00c2\u00a0 But we had a ton of fun!\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some pictures from that day&#8217;s events!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAP2kl3nI\/AAAAAAAACQE\/q9TESbDlfXc\/s400\/IMG_1377.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture is a little out of order but I like it so much I wanted it at the top of my post!\u00c2\u00a0 Look how patriotic they look!\u00c2\u00a0 Sparkle sparkle!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAKpO5snI\/AAAAAAAACPQ\/OWzxJGymdt8\/s400\/IMG_1308.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We started the day off by going to Beth and Nathan&#8217;s ward breakfast!\u00c2\u00a0 Nathan made some of the pancakes for the breakfast and they were great!\u00c2\u00a0 After the breakfast they had a little parade for all the primary and nursery kids!\u00c2\u00a0 Since Emmy doesn&#8217;t have a bike&#8230;yet&#8230; (can someone say Birthday!!) Alex pushed Emmy and Kaylee around in the Given&#8217;s bike trailer!\u00c2\u00a0 Emmy thought it was the coolest thing ever!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiALMLkHtI\/AAAAAAAACPU\/qbyNjhzSUVQ\/s400\/IMG_1315.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So all the kids were lined up and when the whistle blew to start the parade most kids thought it was a race and they all took off!!\u00c2\u00a0 Except for Josh!\u00c2\u00a0 He was so cute on his little bike!\u00c2\u00a0 He had this face the whole time that seemed to say &#8220;don&#8217;t those kids realize they are going in circles?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It totally cracked us up!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAIVvmyEI\/AAAAAAAACO8\/nXfzp_c2T3w\/s400\/img_4257.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the parade was over Josh was nice enough to share his bike with Emmy!\u00c2\u00a0 She immediately took off around the circle.\u00c2\u00a0 When I called to her to take a picture she quickly paused and yelled cheese and then she was on her way! Luckily I was already perched on the sidewalk with the camera!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAI6rebgI\/AAAAAAAACPA\/5tFn52KHEaY\/s400\/img_4262.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emmy and Logan saying cheese while on their bikes!\u00c2\u00a0 They must be cousins!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAKNnRunI\/AAAAAAAACPM\/eQR8ANfsz7Y\/s400\/IMG_1303.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole Fam after breakfast!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAL-oQ0vI\/AAAAAAAACPc\/0bO1czhL_Po\/s400\/img_4283.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That night we had some sparklers and poppers for the kids to do!\u00c2\u00a0 They did great and had tons of fun with them!\u00c2\u00a0 Logan and Emmy liked the sparklers most and Josh really liked the poppers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAMv6Mc1I\/AAAAAAAACPk\/2tm29kaCri0\/s400\/img_4286.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close up of Kaylee and her daddy!\u00c2\u00a0 We had to go buy some headbands after a couple people thought she was a boy at the ward breakfast!\u00c2\u00a0 I think these little butterflies did the trick!\u00c2\u00a0 I think she looks very girlie!\u00c2\u00a0 Cutie pie!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAMQwSuMI\/AAAAAAAACPg\/adhs2OQrozA\/s400\/img_4284.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Beth looking very 4 of July-ish!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAOUw5y_I\/AAAAAAAACP0\/8iS66FGufUA\/s400\/img_4301.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Girl&#8217;s just wanna have fun!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiANfyB8mI\/AAAAAAAACPs\/ATlMUrzEivQ\/s400\/img_4290.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emmy and her sparkler!\u00c2\u00a0 She had fun making designs in the air!\u00c2\u00a0 If you look close you can see the accumulating pile of used sparklers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAPcl7kYI\/AAAAAAAACQA\/nIgCpRQv9oY\/s400\/IMG_1356.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a really cute picture of Logan with his sparkler!\u00c2\u00a0 They seemed to have a ton of fun!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SmiAN8OGE_I\/AAAAAAAACPw\/9N60GSFrRCw\/s400\/img_4292.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy 4th of July everybody!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 4th of July!! Sorry we are about 3 weeks late in blogging about it!\u00c2\u00a0 But we had a ton of fun!\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some pictures from that day&#8217;s events! This picture is a little out of order but I like it so much I wanted it at the top of my post!\u00c2\u00a0 Look how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/happy-birthday-u-s-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday U.S.A<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}