Oh Say Can You.....be any busier on the 4th?

Well I'm finally recovered enough from the 4th of July to post about our looooooong, yet fun, 4th of July. If you don't know how busy a City employee can be on the 4th, here's an insight......

Up and to the 5k race by 6:45 (yep that's in the am) to hand out t-shirts to sweaty runners

Dave actually ran the 5k in 27.something - way to go!

Then it's off to the parade........

Lindsay and I built the Baby Contest float - I didn't get any really good pictures - it was a movie themed float with a cool clapboard up front (Check Linny's blog for a better picture!)

Here are some pictures of the dance girls - they did such a great job! It was hot and they danced so good! Check the dance studio blog for more pictures!

Hop in the shower just long enough to not stink.......

Then we have children's races (sorry no pics)

Then the grass scramble (which is actually done in wood shavings - less stinky than grass!)Here's some pictures of my girls hunting for candy and money........

Marlee (she called this the scrambled eggs thing :))

Kaycee (I am soooo proud of her - she DOES NOT like crowds and this is the first year she's actually gotten in there and done this!)

Bradee (just the opposite of Kaycee - she's a DIE HARD grass scrambler)

Oh, and Lindsay and I decided to hop in during the adult round, but all our candy went to the girls!

Time for a break - YA RIGHT -- shove down some lunch (first food of the day for me), hop in the shower and head back to the park by 3:30 to start setting up for dinner (again no pics sorry!) Lindsay and I played cashiers with Kay (my bosses wife and one of the nicest ladies on the planet) while Dave flipped souvlaki (in 200 degree heat and lost 7 pounds - inside joke - hee hee hee) Lindsay and Kay had to eat dinner at the cashiers table - no breaks!

Then I put on a private concert - here's all my screaming fans.....totally kidding - this is when we started handing out FREE icecream!

Next up......my favorite part.....SKYDIVERS!!! These guys are so awesome - all my pictures of them actually skydiving turned out crappy, but they were so nice to pose with their parachutes and us! Thanks Blake, Fish, Johnny and the other guy :) Here's the girls waiting...

Oh wanna hear something so cool and way beyond my threshold for excitement.........here's the plan for next year.....Blake is going to get tandem equipment and let me tandem skydive with him into the park. I am soooo stoked! And everyone is invited to come and see if I eat dirt!

4th of July standard next......fireworks. Lantis did an excellent job this year - thanks Josh and Steve and the 6 other Pyros!

Also a HUGE thank you to Grandma Diane and Grandpa Dave for watching the girls while Dave and I helped with dinner - couldn't have done it without you!!!

Here's me and Lindsay pooped out at the end of the day (ps did you notice this is my 3rd outfit for the day????)

Oh what - you think we're done - WRONG!!! We reported back to the park saturday morning at 7:30 am to pick up garbage for 2 hours - sick and wrong! People are gross! And NO, I did not take any pictures of trash detail!

Here's a picture from Saturday after we sorted all the candy from the grass scramble - I think we did pretty dang good. Also, you can't see there was 4 passes to the dinosaur park, a $5 gift certificate to Smith & Edwards and a whopping $1.15 in coins!

Well happy 9th of July! Day of recovery! Only 360 days til next years festivities!