We went to the city park for the annual Fourth of July festivities. We have been doing this for years and it wasn't until today that I learned there is also a Fourth of July parade first thing in the morning every year as well. Apparently we have slept through it...every year. Well, now that I know about it maybe I will wake everyone up early for next year! The prize for one of the games was the bright orange T-shirts shown in some of the pictures below. One of the kids said, "Hey, these shirts say 2011!" (Why do you think they were free?) But they were just excited about a free shirt and at least three of the kids immediately put them on. So now instead of red, white, and blue, our kids were red, white, blue, and bright orange. How patriotic!
Watermelon Seed spitting contest
Redeeming the "free ice-cream" coupons the kids won at the games. Thanks, Dairy Queen!
(They probably hate cheap people like us who come in for ten free ice-cream cones and ten free cups of water and don't spend a cent!)
Janika invited Emily Theobald to join us...
We also invited the Theobalds over tonight for a BBQ. The adults got to visit while all of the kids played. Some of the kids went swimming and we lit a few sparklers. Fires throughout Utah have been really intense this year and so all aerial fireworks were banned except for the big ones the city puts on. The Theobalds left to go see the fireworks but we opted to stay home and get the little ones in bed. The kids were disappointed that none of the neighbors were doing their regular big show of fireworks and so the evening was a little anti-climatic for them with no fireworks but a few sparklers.
Jenna's nightgown kept falling down -- thus the rubber band in back!
Happy Fourth!!
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