Happy 4th of July!

We hope everyone had a GREAT 4th of July! This was my first Colorado 4th of July - last year I was home visiting over the 4th. Surprisingly, there are almost no parades today here in Denver so we ventured up to Georgetown, a little mining town in the mountains where they DO have a parade. It was such a cool place to watch a parade and had a fun small town atmosphere.Here is Violet's reaction to the start of the parade.

Notice the people watching the parade from the windows across the way. Good seats, but no candy for them!
Willa's first parade and first 4th of July. She slept through the whole thing - even the sirens!The view of the mountains from the parade routeHere is a little video of the parade:

We got to Georgetown a little early so we walked down to the park and let Violet play on some of the fun toys.


We were also lucky enough to have Jon's mom stay with us and help last week. We took a trip to the zoo on her last day. Here we are in front of our favorites, the giraffes.Willa's first trip to the zoo. She slept through most of it too.
Violet and her Oma at the elephants.
Oma and Willa
Oma, Violet and the bear.
Violet got lots of special treats this week - here she is with her ice cream from Oma. Perfect for a hot day!
We also have had one more set of visitors - my step-sister Sarah and her husband Rich are in town for a few days too! Here is Sarah with a very snuggly Willa.
And a couple of cute pictures of Willa in the sunshine on her changing table. She has been smiling a lot which is sooo sweet!

A video of Willa smiling:

Violet is loving having all the baby gear out and around. Here she tries out the swing.
We now have a little skate ramp in our backyard and Violet LOVES to run back and forth (and back and forth) on it. Plus she's finding out how fun and funny her daddy and Uncle Trent can be. She says one of my favorite things in here - "Look at me!" except she says it like "Yook-it. ME!":