Well, the picture upload is being a bit silly, so only half of my pictures will load. Well, I mine as well start and post some fun pictures of the 4th of July! It was a busy day for us :)
We went to a friend's birthday party at a park and played the morning and lunch time away. What can be better than playing with squirt guns and getting people wet?
We all went home for naps and then headed to a bbq at another friends' house. We brought (of course) homemade ice cream (butterfinger flavor) and the rest of the food was provided. The kids loved playing with each other and with the sparklers! But, I must say I think they liked the 'snakes' the best out of all the home fireworks. Reed was amazed that this thing kept growing and growing! Eve had fun doing just about everything - the swing, sparklers, eating, running. After a while of playing and eating, we headed over to a local Vienna park to watch the fireworks - set to go off at dusk.
Well, dusk came and went and there were no fireworks. The cover band that was hired just kept playing songs. 9 pm came and went (we were all getting excited because it was supposed to be starting in just a few minutes). 9:30 pm came and went, then closer to 10 pm, then 10 pm. I was almost ready to be done - kids were wanting to see fireworks and were getting tired. Sitting on grass for that long is not super comfortable when you are pretty pregnant.
Luckily, there were some fireworks in the distance that captivated everyone's attention for at least 10 minutes. Then, it was getting close to 10:30 pm and I was going to call it quits. Well, whatever the complication was got fixed and the fireworks started.
Our view was FANTASTIC! I have never seen fireworks that close before. They actually ended up scaring Reed (although he loved them a bit further away) partly due to tiredness, but partly because he was not ready when they actually started and it literally looked like they were going to fall on top of us! He spent the entire show hugging Tyson ultra hard. Eve was a bit scared, but soon started to like all the colors in the sky.
The show ended up being awesome! Pictures are coming in part 2 of this post, whenever I can get the rest of the pictures loaded. I was thoroughly impressed, except for the starting super late thing! Hopefully, it's not the same next year! Here are pictures of some of our adventures!
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Eve admiring the play area - pointing specifically to the swing.
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Aaaahhh! I love the swing :)
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Reed trying out the huge sparklers (Thanks, Deanne - fabulous picture!)
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| Fire is awesome! |
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I love this picture! Thanks to Deanne who took it :) Don't mind the dirty shirt from playing and spilling food.
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| This is pure Eve. Deanne captured it perfectly! |
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| Watching snakes is serious business. |
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Reed could've watch all day.
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Playing with sparklers.
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| He seriously loved the sparklers. |
1 comment:
Your kids are so cute, it's hard not to get a great picture of them! It was a good time. Glad you guys made it over.
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