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4th of July

The 4th of July is always so much fun. One of my favorite holidays. It's always a busy holiday but tons of fun. We went to the balloon festival first thing in the morning on Saturday. Mike worked at the hospital the night before and got off just in time for it. So, I loaded all the boys up and met him there. We have kind of made it a family tradition of going every year. The boys love it too!

We had a BBQ at my parent's house with everybody on Sunday. Then of course we did fireworks. Usually it's complete chaos of fireworks for about 15 minutes and then that's it. This year was a little more mild. The kids all wanted to light them. So, they would line up and Kristy would hand them a firework and then the Dad's helped them light them off. Then Jared bought some arial fireworks that were pretty cool. We played games of course too. The funniest was doing the wheel barrel races. Too bad it's kind of dark in the pictures.

On Monday we took the boys to the splash pad. We wanted to do something fun as a family on the actual holiday. Mike had clinicals that night so we played during the day. We have only been to the splash pad one other time but the boys love it. I might have to take them there more often. I thought of getting fireworks to light off with the boys that night but with Mike working, I decided not too. We'll have to get some fireworks to light off on the 24th.

All and all it was a lot of fun! My boys were pretty tired by the end of the weekend!