July 4th Festivities

The 4th of July Holiday always makes for busy fun filled days.

  Here is a little bit of our what we did. 

WARNING:  Long post AND picture overload.

 July 1st
The girls are attending a summer fun school with their old pre-school teacher.  I am so glad they get to hang out with her a little bit more.  She is an amazing teacher.  Anyways, each year she does a 4th of July Parade where the kids get to decorate their own scooter and be in the parade.

The girls were so excited with their decorated scooters that they took them for a test drive the night before in their pajamas.

 

July 2nd

 Summer Fun School 4th of July Parade

 

All decked out in their 4th of July stuff

Such a beauty!!

 

Evening Activities 

 That night we all hung out in the front yard.  The kids did a little patriotic chalk art

 

See, even Lucky got in on the festivities.

In case you were wondering what Ethan was doing during chalk art time...... HE READS. 
 That boy hardly ever DOES NOT have a book in his hand.

 

July 3rd

Jim, Ethan and Lizzie went camping with our friend Cameron Duncan and two of his kids.  They hiked up to Willow Lake (where we went on a family hike a couple weeks ago) and set up tents and camp.  They said they saw lots of moose and were surrounded by the sound of coyotes at night.

 

 

July 4th-

So I decided to splurge some of my very first paycheck and surprised the kids with this....

They have been wanting one for awhile.  Lizzie especially has been wanting one.  Jim and I told them we had to go to the store for about 15 minutes.  After we got back from buying it we told them we needed help unloading the groceries from the back of the car.  When they came to the back of the car they saw this box instead of groceries  :)  Definitely one of those fun parenting moments.

Some assembly required

Lizzie super happy at the progress

This is also what Lizzie did while the boys set up the trampoline :)

Once it was all set up Jim got to be the very first person to go on since he set most of it up.

And now we have lots of pictures like this.....



And this.....

Still more......

Lilly likes to kick balls around on it.
  The kids have invented some game where if one of the random
 5 or 6 balls on the tramp touch you it is like freeze tag or something.

And look.... even pictures with friends.

 

For the actual evening of the 4th we went out to a BBQ at Matt and Ruth's.  It was nice to all be together.  Our family left around 9:30 to head to Sandy fireworks.

 

 July 5th- 
Since Liz was in town all of us girls met for breakfast. 
 It was nice to get together and hang out and chat.
 

 

 July 7th- We went up to our property to celebrate our 1 year anniversary of putting the offer in on our property (actually July 5th).  No cabin yet (still far in the future- sigh) but still nice to go up and dream.

 

And those end our 4th of July festivities.

Those days were very nice but busy. 

 

 I am now ready to get back to our normal summer days of

swimming, swimming and more swimming :)