Happy Fourth of July

We celebrated the fourth of July this year in Canadian, Texas. It was pretty fantastic. We all slept in a little, made french toast, and then headed over to the parade. We brought our turtle, Wyatt, with us so we could race him in the turtle race. It's a BYOT, so the night before we had to put him in a box to make sure we could find him in the morning ;) On the way out there, we rescued a littler turtle who was hanging out on the highway. We brought them both with us. Canadian is an ADORABLE little town, population 2500, but they put on a heck of a 4th of July. The parade was pretty awesome, bigger and way better that what I was expecting. Tristan made friends with the lady next to us, and she caught an entire bag of candy for him while he was out registering his turtle. When he got back, she held his hand and helped him catch all kinds of goodies.

 After the parade we went to the turtle race. Jeff regrets not registering both turtles-he left the little one as a spare in case some other kid didn't have one. He ended up not getting used. Wyatt did pretty good-except he paused and took a left when if he would have gone straight he would have actually placed. UGH! All our training... wasted.
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Then we just walked around and enjoyed the art gallery, booths, wagon rides, bubbles, farm toys, $.25 hot dogs and drinks... it was awesome.  After lunch we headed home and everyone took a nap and it was pretty much AWESOME.  Then we woke up, drank root beer floats, had the most amazing hamburgers, had pie and ice cream, and then headed back to Canadian to enjoy some fishing and fireworks.  It was one of the most perfect days we could have ever had.  Minus my bad hair.