Saturday, July 3rd

We celebrated Independence Day all weekend long this year, and had so much fun each day! The girls especially loved dressing up in their red, white, and blue attire each day. Some days, they only made it half a day before their clothes were dirty so we had to do laundry a couple times during that weekend because they refused to wear anything else, they 'had' to wear their 4th of July clothes, Maddie would say!

Friday night we had a neighborhood BBQ. Complete with a kids bike parade, water games, bounce house, dunk tank, popcorn & ice cream machines, and fireworks. Maddie loved the dunk tank best. She threw the ball at the target and knocked a few people in, but she also got to try the dunk tank herself! She LOVED when someone hit the target and she got dropped in the water! I thought I had pictures, but I guess we must have just got it on video on the flip camera. :(

These pictures are from Saturday night. We met Heidi & Jarom at Thanksgiving Point for their "awesome" activities & fireworks. Ha Ha! Kind of a joke! There were supposed to be a bunch of vendors and activities for the kids. I think only 1 or 2 vendors EVENTUALLY showed up. The girls did go on a little train ride with Heidi. Mike & Jarom ended up leaving to pick up pizza because there was only 1 food vendor there. The weather wasn't very good, it was SO windy! Even with all our blankets, we were freezing, but the kids had fun running around anyway. Just before fireworks, we decided to take off and watch them up at Maddie's old preschool up on the hill. We are glad we did! The fireworks were pretty good, except they only lasted maybe 10 minutes. But as soon as they were over, we got on the road and drove away. Heidi & Jarom had stayed back at the park for the fireworks and I think it took them over an hour to get out! We were already home and had all the kids in bed asleep before they even made it onto the freeway!