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I hope everyone had a good 4th of July. We stayed around home and had a pretty mellow weekend. On Sunday night we headed down to Spring Valley to watch their fireworks. The kids loved them. Cora stared in amazement through the whole show, although she wanted to make sure she stuck pretty close to us. For Beau it was the louder the better!






The 4th's festivities didn't go quite as smoothly. We had planned to go to the parade in Stewartville and then stay for the fireworks. But....that's not quite the way it worked out. We went to the parade, but weren't there long enough to actually see it. Beau started whining and complaining as soon as we got there, and while waiting for the parade to start is escalated to a constant "I want to go HOME!" After repeat attempts at distraction and pacification (is that a word) we decided to cut our losses and grant his wish. As soon as we packed up the chairs and he realized we actually were going home as requested a full scale tantrum, screaming and trying to run away ensued. So there was no parade and fireworks on the 4th for us this year....oh well...maybe next year...



Our little sparkler...shortly after she face-planted off the curb into the street.







This picture pretty much sums up Beau's extremely happy attitude...





























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