4th of July

I love the 4th of July because the kids look forward to it all year!  It is almost as big of a deal to them as Christmas is.  Brett was in charge of the 4th of July breakfast.  Honestly, I was a little nervous because Brett has never put on such a big an event as this for the ward before.  Thankfully, our friend in the ward volunteered to cook the food! Brett conducted the ceremony and even assigned himself a talk.  :)  It all worked out and glad it's over.  That evening we went to the Vance family for a BBQ and fireworks.  We invited our good friends, Mike and Fawn Johnson and their daughter Nyah to join us.  The food was really good!  The Vance's had bought the day before a trampoline so that kept the kids entertained all day while the adults could visit. Fawn brought face paint and that was a hit too.  Some of the kids got a little crazy with the pain on their faces.  Clark and Daisy were so excited for fireworks that they couldn't eat their food.  Finally, it was firework time.  We went out to their neighborhood and did the traditional fireworks of sparklers and snappers. We did some fireworks that shot up in the sky and let out a parachute guy.  The kids would run after the parachute guy as he descended down. One even landed in the neighbors tree   After dessert, the real fireworks started.  Since all fireworks are legal in Washington, we had quiet the show.  It was so loud and so many that it sounded like a war zone.