On the actual 4th we went to my parents to celebrate with them. My sister Jeri & family came over as well as my nieces Kennedy & Skylar (Shilo's girls). It was a very fun day!!
For lunch we had hotdogs & hamburgers with corn on the cob. For some reason no one could find the corn holders which we all thought was no big deal....except Grace. My daughter who will gladly go play in the dirt, mud, mulch what have you could not pick up her corn to eat because it had butter on it and would get her hands dirty!! Seriously!?! Thankfully Daddy came up with this clever solution....2 forks!!! :)
That morning we went to the local fireworks stand and picked up some more snaps, smoke balls and a few other items. Grace wanted to give it a try and after several times with Daddy's help she decided she was big enough to do it on her own!
However, Eva decided to just stick to the snaps!
The girls with some of their cousins.....Eva, Kennedy, Ajay, Aiden, Grace & Skylar.
We bought a couple of parachutes for the girls and Grace thought they were the coolest. If you don't know what it is it is basically just as the name says. You light it, it goes off and shoots up in the air and a parachute comes floating out of it. As a child we would run after them cause I guess we thought they were cool. Whatever it was it seems to still be the same for the kids, they could not wait to get a hold of them and several of them made the trip home with us!
Grammy trying to untangle all the parachutes....not an easy task to do!
Figured we would give sparklers another shot....
Eva not such a fan....
Grace loved them!
Later in the afternoon the older kids were hollowing out the smoke balls to put firecrackers in to "blow up" and Grace of course was right there helping them out even though she did not get to light any firecrackers. She just loved hanging out with all of her cousins and trying to do anything they were doing! :)
Hope all of you had as good of a 4th as we did!
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