Happy 4th of July!

We had a FUN 4th of July!

Our day started with the annual parade and we had great seats again this year.

Kids waiting for it all to start

Conner, Taylee, and Ryker (it's always more fun to do this with family!)

Ellie

Quinton

Weiland

Holland and Brynlee

This was one of the coolest floats in the parade, our local grocery store.

Holland enjoyed the grass more than anything, and no matter how many times I moved the blanket to hide the grass she'd always pull it back to find it again. I admit she probably ate some.

A parade in Rexburg wouldn't complete with out the tractors.

Todd is feeling the crunch of the end of the semester and so brought his homework with him, hey at least he was there. (he wasn't on it the whole time)

Now between the parade and the fireworks we had a fun family BBQ at my sisters with both my sisters and their families. And I did bring my camera but didn't snap a single picture, shame on me!

Later that evening we went to our annual neighborhood fireworks show, nothing too big we all just do our fireworks together for a better show. We did have some pretty cool ones to watch this year.

Dad and his girls

Ellie putting on her own show while we waited for it to get dark

Here we go,

Holland did exceptionally well with the fireworks. She stayed awake through the whole thing, not that she could have really slept. She'd jump when they'd go off but loved watching them in the sky. No crying through the whole thing!

Ellie on the other hand didn't like the noise. That's her, the lump in the blanket. Eventually Todd got her to come out and sit with him but she kept her hands over her ears the entire time. At the end we had a bit of a hard time convincing her that the noise was over and that she could take her hands down.

We had a great day with family and friends!
Hope you all had a wonderful 4th!!