Celebrating 'Merica - 4th of July weekend

For the Fourth of July celebration, tradition in the Flategraff family for the past 20+ years has been to head up to Alexandria and celebrate with the Germscheid family.  This year with baby girls' due date being only 4 weeks away, I did not feel comfortable being 6+ hours away from Mayo Clinic so our family decided to celebrate here in town.

We started out the celebration on Thursday July 4th with the Cannon Falls Parade.  The parade was actually really good, lasting just over an hour, and baby boy was loving it as there were SO many fire trucks and tractors!

 Ella & Hudson waiting for the parade to start

 He is so excited about what is coming down the street :)

We spent the rest of the afternoon at our house playing with our water toys and water balloons courtesy of the neighbor's.  From our house we were also able to see numerous firework displays :)

We also spent some of the weekend at the Northfield pool as it was SO hot & humid.  Hudson definitely enjoyed himself and was having a lot of fun with the water geysers.

  

Overall it was a fun weekend here in town though we did miss being up north.  Hopefully next year we can rejoin the celebration of 'merica with the rest of the group :)