Happy 4th!

This past weekend was a somewhat busy one! We headed back up North to Schaumburg on Friday morning to spend some time with my parents and dogs before Saturday. Saturday was my grandma's 80th birthday party at my Aunt Cathy's place of work which was huge and amazing. A TON of people showed up for it and it was a great way to celebrate the best grandma ever.

We then headed over to my Aunt Cathy's and Uncle Pat's place for a smaller celebration with family only. It was a lot of fun. Good food, good conversation, and a not so good game of bags for Kate and me. Andy and I headed out about 930, arriving back in Saint Louis at about 3 am...

We still made it to 9 o'clock service however! Andy went to work for a couple of hours and then we began our fourth of July celebration. We went downtown downtown, near the arch. We walked through this cool park with a ton of sculptures and water fountains. We then went to stake out our spot for the fireworks. We found a lovely spot that wasn't too crowded but enough people to think it was a good spot. We listened to the B52's who were playing for the fest, who were absolutely awful sounding and played Andy's most favorite song, Love Shack...

Then the fire works started... And the tree we though the fireworks would go higher than covered our entire view of them. So we quickly ran from our "perfect" spot and found a good standing spot. Our first 4th of July in Saint Louis was a pretty cool and exciting experience.