The Klein Family: Our 4th

Our Fourth of July weekend was a busy one! We had lots of fun, but we were all worn out after the weekend.

Friday night we enjoyed an evening on the Mississippi. We played on the beach and enjoyed a boat ride. Camden got to spend some quality time with Grandma Rose.

On Saturday, Chad & Tanner went fishing. It was T's 1st time and he caught 4 fish! He was so proud and still tells everyone who will listen about going fishing with daddy and Uncle Matt. Maddy went to a birthday party for her friend from preschool, she enjoyed getting to see all the girls from preschool.

On Sunday we went to my Grandparent's for their annual 4th of July fish fry. It was nice to be able to spend time with all our family, & the fish was also good! The kids had fun running around playing football & looking at my Grandparent's fish pond.

Monday was a very busy, but fun 4th! We started the day at 9 am at the West Burlington Fire Station for the pancake breakfast. From there we went to a ceremony honoring past & present firemen and women. Chad's Uncle Bill was honored, he passed away while fighting a fire at Ryan's Fitness Center. It was a very nice ceremony. From there we let the kids do a few of the activities before we headed home to relax and cool off for a little bit.

After we rested, we headed back to WB for the parade. The Klein family was the Grand Marshall of the parade. It was a great honoring to be honoring Chad's grandma, Pat Klein. We all had a blast tossing out candy to all the kids along the parade route, but it was HOT!!! When the parade was over the semi took us to Longmeadow Park. The mayor of West Burlington renamed the park to Chad's grandma, the park is now called the Pat Klein Memorial Park. She helped get the park started, so this is a great honor! After the dedication, we headed to Rick's for a PICNIC....Pat's favorite thing! At least it didn't rain. After eating we headed uptown to watch the fireworks. Poor Tanner was so wore out, he ended up falling asleep in a lawn chair, we tried to wake him up so that he could watch the fireworks, Chad put him on his shoulders, & that's where he stayed till we got back to the car. He used Chad's head as a pillow! I'm not sure how he slept through the fireworks, when thunder usually wakes him up....

We had a great 4th, but I think we all could of used an extra day to recover from the busy weekend!!!