Lucy celebrates

Here's Lucy picking out some fireworks at the fireworks stand. July 4th is a week long celebration here. Karianne calls it "July week." I think she heard "4th of July week" on the news and just picked up on the last part. Anyway, we're a little late in the festivities, we bought fireworks on July 4th and shot them off July 4th that's it. I know weird huh?

Sparklers

This is our only child you will see holding a sparkler long enough to take a picture. There was a lot of tough talk of how they were brave and they wanted to do fireworks. The reality was they ran shreaking and screaming with their hands over their ears for the majority of the evening. Amy didn't mind holding a sparkler though.

happy 4th!

Freedomfest

We had our Church 4th of July celebration last night. Karianne decorated her bike and road it in a bike parade. Angie and Amy got from place to place in a red wagon. Angie doesn't usually like bounce houses, But she and Amy spent a lot of time in them. Amy likes to sit and let everyone else bounce her. The blew bubbles and Angie had bubble juice all down her front. Karianne wanted to climb the rock wall but she doesn't weigh the minimum 45 pounds yet. She threw a ball at the dunking booth instead and she and I entered the egg toss competition, we were out on the first throw. :-) They were all very excited about watching the fireworks and Karianne and Angie assured us they were big girls this year and would not be scared. We brought lawn chairs for everyone to sit in, within 5 minutes, all six of us were sitting in 2 chairs. Brent had the frightened Angie and Amy in his lap, I had the scared Karianne and laughing Lucy in my lap. Karianne felt a little more brave after she threw a blanket on her head and watched the show through the blanket. Afterwords, they were all talk and said how much they loved the show and wanted to see more. Ha!