The 4th of July fun continues!!!

We continued our 4th of July (after a short nap) with a trip to the Angel Game with our friends The Parks...We had great seats behind home plate. The Angels won 8-2 versus the Bluejays...The game was full of cheers, good conversations and lots of snacks :)

After the game, we had a front row seat to one of the best fireworks displays in Orange County set to some great patriotic music!!!

Can you say BOOM!!!!

I LOVE A PARADE!!!

Stephen and I took our annual trip to the largest 4th of July Parade west of the Mississippi River...oh yeah it just happens to be in our town, SURF CITY...aka Huntington Beach.

Every year about 200-300 thousand people show up to watch the parade. This year we had PERFECT weather, about 73 degrees with a soft ocean breeze. The parade is right down Main Street with the pier in the background. We ride our bikes up from our house, with hundreds of others...it is great to see everyone dressed up and with their bikes decorated.

The parade is really fun and full of energy with beautiful moments of patriotism...for example everyone stands and applauds/salutes the "Pearl Harbor Suvivors" as well as the all the other military involved. People dance and sing along the many marching bands...and how about those crazy "Shriner's" with their little cars, I wish I could post all of the pictures we took!

Our Morning Doves are back...with babies!!!

We had a couple of morning doves last June that were adorable and quite the handsome couple. Well, they are back and have had babies...for the first few weeks of June the babies stayed in of our rain gutter where they would peek out their heads to look when we would walk by. As the weeks passed they started venturing up onto our roof. Then last week, they flew down to our front yard/patio to pick around in the dirt looking for seeds off the tree. They are the sweetest little birds and I personally love their call...it is very peaceful. We also have a family of mockingbirds that live in the tree next to our house. Everytime they get started with their singing...I started singing to Stephen, "MOCK---ING---BIRD---YEAH" (that is from Dumb and Dumber in case you thinking, what??)...This always gets a smile from Stephen!!!

I could have predicted this one...she is one of my top three!!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.

Which Princess Are You?!