Thanks to our good friends, this was such a fun day for the kiddos! Really the only thing I did that was festive was let Aimee watch the General George Washington animated movie while I did her hair. However, she has been saying "thank you for America," every time it is her turn to say the prayer. After lunch we went to the giant slip and slide. It was actually a huge roll of plastic that our friends the Bullock's set up on the hill across the street from VG. They strung about 15 hoses from two hydrants together to keep sprinklers on it. It was pretty
enginuitive! Aimee's
preferred method of getting to the bottom was riding on my back. It took a few tries to figure out how to stay in the middle, and how to slow down at the bottom enough to not get all scraped up when the slide ended and the grass started, but Aimee and I had a blast!
Porter was more a fan of the kiddie pool at the bottom. My friend Ashley got several of us to put on a little carnival for the kids. We all came up with a simple little booth. The kids were given tickets to use to play at each booth.
We had face painting (Aimee got a princess crown on her forehead), bubbles, photos, a bean bag toss, pin the pan on Flynn Rider and a fishing pond.
We even had a snow cone stand and cake.
It was so cute! It was a pretty hot day, so the boys were pretty worn out by bed time. Aimee was too, but somehow she managed to find the energy to stay up and play until the fireworks went off. This was the first year that fireworks weren't lit at
Rosenblatt stadium. Lucky for us, all of the flooding at
Harrah's casino caused them to have to move their fireworks show to Horseshoe casino. This is just across the river from us, and was visible from the lawn across the street from Village Green. I'm not sure how much of the fireworks the
Jacobsen's were able to see, since Aimee was crawling all over them during the show, but it was pretty fun. Aimee and I were also able to come home and have a quick
Skype with Chad before calling it a night. It was a wonderful day to remember how very
blest we are!
Thanks to our good friends, this was such a fun day for the kiddos! Really the only thing I did that was festive was let Aimee watch the General George Washington animated movie while I did her hair. However, she has been saying "thank you for America," every time it is her turn to say the prayer. After lunch we went to the giant slip and slide. It was actually a huge roll of plastic that our friends the Bullock's set up on the hill across the street from VG. They strung about 15 hoses from two hydrants together to keep sprinklers on it. It was pretty enginuitive! Aimee's preferred method of getting to the bottom was riding on my back. It took a few tries to figure out how to stay in the middle, and how to slow down at the bottom enough to not get all scraped up when the slide ended and the grass started, but Aimee and I had a blast!
Porter was more a fan of the kiddie pool at the bottom. My friend Ashley got several of us to put on a little carnival for the kids. We all came up with a simple little booth. The kids were given tickets to use to play at each booth. 
We had face painting (Aimee got a princess crown on her forehead), bubbles, photos, a bean bag toss, pin the pan on Flynn Rider and a fishing pond.
We even had a snow cone stand and cake. 
It was so cute! It was a pretty hot day, so the boys were pretty worn out by bed time. Aimee was too, but somehow she managed to find the energy to stay up and play until the fireworks went off. This was the first year that fireworks weren't lit at Rosenblatt stadium. Lucky for us, all of the flooding at Harrah's casino caused them to have to move their fireworks show to Horseshoe casino. This is just across the river from us, and was visible from the lawn across the street from Village Green. I'm not sure how much of the fireworks the Jacobsen's were able to see, since Aimee was crawling all over them during the show, but it was pretty fun. Aimee and I were also able to come home and have a quick Skype with Chad before calling it a night. It was a wonderful day to remember how very blest we are! 
Wow it sounds like you live in an awesome neighborhood with awesome people- that sounds like it was a great day- great pictures! I want to try a slip n slide like that!
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