Pomerleau Family Blog: 4th of July fun and Lulu's 1st birthday!

Lulu turned 1 on July 2nd. She had been spayed just 4 days before so we had a low key birthday party. The kids and I still got some fun birthday treats for Lulu and each kid picked out a present for her. Olivia picked out a squeaky chicken and it ended up being Lulu's favorite toy. Brandon picked out some fun chews and bones. We couldn't imagine our lives without Lulu and can't believe our sweet girl is now one!

Happy birthday Lulu!

Happy birthday bone for Lulu-she loved it!

Lulu and her cute birthday collar

4th of July fell on a Thursday this year. Unfortunately, I did not have the next day Friday off and only had Thursday off. My co-worker was also off all week which made things much busier than normal for us. Brandon's cub scout pack had planned to have a recruitment event with a booth at the King City parade and we had a pack event for them to ride their decorated bikes in the parade. We went last year for the first time with Brooke and Taylor and their family and it was fun. It was a nice small low key parade with fire trucks and police officers. We lucked out too with the weather being warmer than they thought. The kids had fun riding their decorated bikes through the parade. I walked the parade with Brooke and Luke (who was in a stroller). We all met at the park where the booths and the parade ended. The kids had a blast going around the booths and looking at all the fun items at the parade. The kids also had fun promoting Cub Scouts at our pack's booth.

All dressed up and ready to ride!

Olivia's bicycle that she decorated

Sweet Olivia ready for her parade

Olivia and Addie all dressed and ready to ride in the parade in their matching dresses

Fun Cub Scout booth

Olivia having a blast playing with bubbles near the Cub Scout booth

After the parade, Sean drove and picked us up and we headed back home. We were going to have the Mowerys over later for a fun BBQ at our house and then were going to do fireworks with them. Before the Mowerys came over, I had the opportunity to take some cute photos of Lulu with her 4th of July bandana on. We also were able to go to our winery Hawks View for a glass of wine.

The Mowerys came over in the late afternoon and we enjoyed some yummy pulled pork sandwiches that Sean had been cooking most of the day. I made some Funfetti cake pops for dessert and we had baked beans and corn on the cob too. Afterwards the kids played some Just Dance while they waited for it to get dark to light off fireworks. We ended up walking down the street to say hi to some of our neighbors and got invited over to their block party. We ended up walking back up and getting all of our fireworks and having fun lighting off fireworks with new friends and old.