July 4th 2010

The 4th of July is like Christmas for Jeff, it's his favorite holiday. He loves buying lots of fireworks and blowing stuff up. I am less enthused about it but he enjoys it so I just have to make sure he doesn't spend a ton of money on them. For the second year in a row, this normally hot and dry holiday has been very rainy. I don't mind it since it's not blistering hot. During the day, before the rain started we took the kids to a nearby park where they were having 4th of July activities. Jensen got to ride carnival rides and play games and I got to eat a huge yummy cinnamon roll. There was a booth raising money by spray painting peoples' hair for a dollar and we tried to convince Jensen to do it but he said no. So, we decided to paint Jorden's hair instead! It looked so cute and everyone who walked by commented on how cute and festive it was! We had a great family day and left right before it poured.

They had a giant sandbox under a tent with lots of sand toys for Jensen to play with

Jorden and Mommy with feet in the sand

Jensen played a fishing game and ended up with several fun prizes

He loved the rides and Jorden enjoyed watching

I love this little patriotic guy! Too cute!

Once Jeff buys fireworks, the challenge is finding somewhere outside of city limits to shoot them off. This year, his friend Scott let us go with him to a relatives house who lives about 45min north of our house. If we still lived in Edmond it would have been very close.....figures since last year we lived up there and drove way south! It rained all the way up there so we were worried we wouldn't be able to do it but it cleared off all but a few sprinkles here and there. There were other families there doing fireworks too so we got to see plenty and since it was wet the risk of fire was much less ha! By about 9pm Jensen was done and asking to go home but he enjoyed them a lot more this year than before.

Some of the fireworks wre loud and Jensen asked Daddy to help hold his ears

Happy Birthday America!