This year for the fourth of July,
Heather invited us to come to her house and watch the fireworks. Where they live you can see several different cities' fireworks! It's totally cool. They also have a ton of land for the kids to roam free and work out all their excitement. It was a ton of fun!
Here's some photos of the day! A month or so ago I purchased us all matching shirts. They boys wore red and the girls wore pink (Courtney's choice of course). Loren wasn't too thrilled to be matching that day. But since I've never made him do this before and it's only one time out of the freakin' year, he hesitantly complied.
Ikee LOVED running around Heather's yard. Heather has this huge tractor that he kept going to. He loves anything with wheels!
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Pretty Courtney, striking a pose.
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And here's little Michael. This is Heather's daughter's (Aria's) son. Isn't he precious! He's only a week old!
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It was fun watching the little kids play on the trampoline. Darren loved it until I got on there and found that with Mommy jumping he do nothing by lie on the trampoline and complain until I got off!
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Courtney climbing and striking another pretty pose. She really liked Heather's jungle gym. The slides were her favorite.
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And here's their new dog. I think his name was Tex? I could be wrong. He was a super good dog! He freaked the pants off of
Ikee when he first saw Tex, but he SLOWLY warmed up to him.
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Loren and Heather's boy Johnny playing with those popper things that you throw on the ground and they snap.
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My pretty, pretty princess! She was having the best time!
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Here's the only picture of me as I was the one behind the camera the whole time.
Ikee isn't too thrilled to be in this shot, as you can tell.
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Another protesting Isaac.
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Courtney loved the sparklers. They're the best!
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Isaac scoping out the tricycle by going straight for the wheels.
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And Darren showing
Ikee how you ride it.
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Finally, a decent photo of
Ikee!
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This was the pile that was going to be set on fire for the bonfire that was planned. But due to weather conditions, it was better we didn't. I wanted to post this shot as Heather told me she can never seem to get a good picture of the moon. Well of all the ones I took, this was the best and still, it's not that great.
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What about this one?
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Here's a teenager who's name I don't know, Loren, and Tom getting ready to start some fireworks.
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Heather's son Joe is throwing a firework in the air with us all watching. I swear those boys are daredevils! The things they did with the fireworks...yikes!
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And I love this photo. This is Izzy, Ton and Liz's little girl and right after the first loud firework that went off, she covered her ears. She's so pretty!
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Here's Courtney, Heather, Dan, Dee, Mark, and a son from another family all gathered around the table.
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Loren and Tom holding the babies.
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I
couldn't' believe I actually got a photo of the fireworks that turned out clearly!
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And here's the yummy dessert we had: angel food cake, whipped cream, and fruit.
We got home around 10:30 that night and all the kids crashed! It was the best! And we hardly had to mess with traffic, which is always a plus.
Thanks Heather and Mark for inviting us! It was so much fun!