Wednesday, July 4, 2012

4th of July


This year was our first year celebrating the 4th of July here in Portland (last year we went to Utah). We woke up early and went to our ward pancake breakfast. Afterwards I took some pics of Gigi, but as you can see she doesn't like to look at the camera! And thanks to Grandma Jim for her cute outfit.


We then went to Target to buy a grill since Adam has been wanting one since we moved here. I guess we shouldn't have left our old grill in LA. We invited some friends over and had hamburgers and homemade corn dogs, it was delicious!

We lit off fireworks pretty early so Gigi could go to sleep at a decent time. I think Gigi's favorite ones were the pop-its, she just loved stomping on them!


I tried to do a sparkler with her but as you can see she wasn't too sure about it!

A few hours after we put Gigi to sleep the fireworks here really got going. I couldn't believe how many were lighting off around us, and I'm not talking about the city fireworks. We sat on our balcony and watched several firework shows. I woke up Gigi so she could see them and she loved it (as long as they weren't too loud!). It was a fun and memorable first 4th in Portland.

2 comments:

Kay Hinton said...

Well at least someone in the Mickelsen family got to do fireworks this year! I think Tricia's new Ruby looks a little like Gigi.

Pal & Hatty said...

Sounds like you had a fun 4th! I love all the pictures of Gigi in that cute little outfit! The one of her with the sparkler is so funny! I'll bet next year she will be more into sparklers! Your barbeque sounds like fun and great food!