We had an especially great 4th of july this year. We didn't really get started till dinner time where I made red white and blue pancakes! Very patriotic and very tasty. Then we went over to Brian and Angie's for rootbeer floats. (coke floats for me thanks) The kids were looking very cute in their firework shirts (we made firework prints using pipecleaners and different color paints) Then we went over to the High School parking lot and just wandered. There were stairs, ramps, fences, ledges, trees, so basically a playground for our kids. They had a real treat climbing and playing on everything.  When it got dark we lit off a couple of our smaller fireworks and did our traditional dance aroud the firework bit.

 BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!! Time for the big fireworks. We had a couple of big ones that we had bought. It was fun to see big fireworks going off right above our heads. Then we watched the town fireworks and it was quite a wonderful way to celebrate our country's independence.