Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Our Fourth of July Celebrations

The fourth was fun. We celebrated by attending our small town parade, that my niece and many others we knew were in. We saw trackers, big rigs, lamas, etc. I think the coolest was the Spanish music with the horses actually dancing! It was fun. Then we went to the kid festivities which was all sponsored by local business so the kids could do everything for free and on some games they would win a small toy for trying. Michael did the dunk tank, and actually got really close and the guy held him up so he could push the button to dunk the poor lady. On another ball toss he actually got the ball through the hole (good for a 3 year old, I'm thinking baseball in his future!). He got to climb all around the fire truck, make crafts, go in the bounce house, and down a big slide (we almost lost his shoes because he took them off without us knowing being so anxious to go on the slide!)
That evening we went to my sister-in-law's home and watched many fireworks from all around us (being near an Indian tribe, there are a lot of illegal fireworks and they don't do much to stop in since everyone has them) One street up from my in-laws they pull their money and buy $10,000 worth of fireworks every year, we also got to see a great show from the neighbors behind them, and of course they bought some as well. It was so much fun, but went a little late. We didn't get the kids to bed until midnight, and we had 9am church the next morning.
So the pictures wont let me move them around so they are in reverse order, sorry.
Michael throwing a ball to dunk the lady
The tractor in our farm town parade

Michael enjoying the parade from daddy's shoulders


Lama in the parade, they would let the kids pet them.



Michael and Emma enjoying the parade from the stroller.


2 comments:

Brown Family said...

That pic of Michael on Kent's shoulders is priceless! We also have 9 a.m. church and didn't appreciate the early morning. Sigh. But we switch times in August (to coincide w/school), so we have only three more weeks of 9 a.m. church. Phew! :)

Andrea said...

I love watching the neighbor firework shows. We saw lots of illegal stuff in Chicago that was pretty cool, but the cops can't be everywhere at once so lots of people get away with it.

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