Connor has been so excited about the America’s birthday for several days now, and was counting down.  When he brought home all the school projects yesterday, he could not wait to decorate the house with them.  He even suggested to write a happy birthday note on the easel too. 

    We decided to do some neighborhood things today; nothing turned out too exciting but we enjoyed this packed day though.  In the morning we hung out at home before heading over to the cabana club at 11am.  The festivities had started and we began with the barbeque lunch first.  After we ate, the boys wanted to go in the wading pool.  Shortly after, there was a kid event “Cake Walk” which was like a musical chair; Logan was not interested, so only Connor and I went over to check it out.  With some encouragement, Connor participated but he would prefer holding my hand through it.  Then Connor and I went to play in the big pool for awhile and Stuart got a chance afterward too.  Logan finally got tired playing and swimming, so we headed home to clean up for naptime.

    In the afternoon, we drove over to Almaden Lake Park where they had a July 4th event.  It was quite crowded and we had to park the car farther away.  We took the long walk to the festivities; they had some food trucks and a few local organization booths.  They also had a parade with people in costumes standing in line there.  We sat down on the lawn to listen to the live music briefly then they presented several awards to the parade participants.  Connor was paying close attention to the stage while Logan was just busy eating his snack.  Afterward we walked around some more and shared a small ice cream treat before we went home.

   Since we are new to this house, plus knowing we have a big plan tomorrow, we just wanted to stay home to see if we could watch fireworks tonight.  The boys were very excited but we had been warning them that we might not actually see any.  After dinner the boys had a dancing party in Stuart’s office until it got dark outside.  Then we took a quick walk outside with their glowsticks before settling down in the “Bonus Room” to wait for the show.  Unfortunately we could only see a couple glimpse of fireworks from our windows.  Later we took a short walk on the block; we caught a brief show of our neighbors playing with some crackers and saw a small scale of big fireworks in a different direction.  Logan was disappointed that we did not really get to see a firework show, but I thought it was sort of fun searching for one.  We then went home and ended a late night for the boys.