Happy 4th

We love fireworks, and we were really bummed last year when July 4th fell on a Sunday. Plus our town didn't have money for fireworks anyway. So this year we were very excited when some last minute donations made it possible for our money-strapped town to do fireworks again.

I love holidays! And I love to do simple little things to celebrate through food. I made American flag pancakes for breakfast by putting blueberries in the corner for stars and red sugar crystal spinkles in rows for the lines. Dave had the idea of puting the sprinkles in a half-folded sheet of paper to make it easier to pour. I thought they turned out so cute, and the boys LOVED them.

Dave spent the whole day working on the sprinklers, since all of our grass was dying. The boys and I made these fun fireworks hats from Family Fun again. Then after dinner we went to the park for fireworks.

We were so stoked about parking. We usually park in the field, which is fine, but it costs money and involves a lot of walking. Well this year we missed the turn and went into the park to turn around, but the attendants there said they thought there was one (free) parking spot left. Sure enough, there was one right next to where we usually sit to watch the fireworks. People probably just assumed it was full, like we usually do, because they were already parking really far away. It's little things like this that make me happy.

We had a couple hours to wait, so we played football and ate lots of snacks and walked around.

When it got dark we played with glow sticks and took crazy pictures.

We even thought to pack our light-up Mickey Mouse toy, which has since broken. I guess we'll need to go back to Disneyland to buy another one.

It was an awesome firworks show. Here are a few of my favorite pictures.

Levi was scared, so Dave put a blanket over his head. He was fine after that.


Here's the grand finale. I like the Saturn one. Afterwards we just casually walked over to our car and drove home. It was fabulous!