Braintree 4th of July...

Our town has their 4th of July celebration the Saturday before the actual 4th, which was today this year. We had no idea when we moved into our neighborhood 3 years ago, but it is the center of all of the festivities which is pretty cool. You can see the fireworks from our deck and pretty much anywhere else in the neighborhood.

We had heard there was a parade that Charlie and I thought was yearly (we just had never been) but come to find out this was the 1st Annual Braintree 4th of July Parade. Kind of cool... We figured Audrey would get a kick out of it, so we put her in the backpack one our neighbors loaned us and walked to the end of the street. All of our neighbors were out which was fun to see them.

It was a pretty cool parade and Audrey actually was very content in the backpack for the entire thing (it was over an hour!). Ask Charlie how his back is doing after carrying our little girl is another story... I wasn't sure how all the loud noises from the fire trucks and cars would go over but she seemed very mezmorized by the whole thing. There were a bunch of marching bands, bagpipes, police cars, and even Cookie Monster and Elmo.

The fireworks are at 10 pm tonight, so I'm not sure if Audrey will make it up for them. If so it will be interesting to see her reaction, love or hate them... She actually was awake for them last year and they didn't phase her, though she was 3 weeks old...