A Festive Fourth

Our darling little town of Williston really knows how to celebrate our nation’s birthday and attending its events is a beloved family tradition. We all really look forward to socializing with community neighbors while the kids run around like crazy! From the 2nd through the 4th the town holds bike, scooter and running races; an ice cream social at the town green while the town band plays; a very colorful parade; a frog jumping contest; and, of course, a traditional fireworks display. For the last several years I had to abandon my family to run around photographing all the fun for the town paper. Since my days at the weekly paper are behind me now, I could hang out with my family and friends snapping photos without gathering caption information. However, most of the kids in Williston associate me with the newspaper so I can’t help but laugh when 5 year olds ask me…hey lady, can you take a picture of me for the paper? Too funny!

Summer met Hannah in the hospital the day she was born and they've been great pals since!Baxter snaps of photo of his pals Conrad and Caleb at the ice cream social.
Hannah, Summer, the big white rabbit and Riley lead "The bunny hop" around the town bandstand.
Baxter was traumatized on the way home when his blue balloon flew out the car window; good thing it is immortalized in this photo. Life IS good!!

It's all about the candy for Summer and her best friend.

Yummy toes!!
Hooray USA!!
If you look closely there is a little self-portrait in there...