July 4th Celebrations

The kids look forward to July 4th celebrations all summer long! They could hardly wait for Robb to get home on the 3rd so that they could go purchase their fireworks. They hate the fact that we make them follow the Lincoln law of not buying them until the 3rd since almost everyone else goes to a smaller town and gets them before that day.

 This year the boys were convinced that they were old enough to light all the fireworks. With Robb's supervision they did end up lighting most of the fireworks.

The smoke bombs and inch and halfers were still the favorites. I think we went through $20.00 of smoke bombs alone.

Abby was even a bit brave and lite off a few smoke bombs with some help.

Draven was going to hang out with us for the night and since all of our kids are a little older and could stay up later, we decided to try going to the Oak Lake firework show. We went over to Jenny and Bob Roeder's house and planned to walk over with them from their house. The kids were all very excited. We ate snacks and hung out at their house until about 9:30 and then walked over. We didn't go into the park but go at good spot that bordered the park. We got our sleeping bags all laid out and waited for the show.

We ended up having great seats and the fireworks were really neat. The kids had a great time! When it was time to go it go interesting! We had 6 children between the 4 adults and a lot of gear to carry back. It was like a wall of people coming out of the park and it was hard to keep track of all the kids but it would have been a terrifying place to lose a child so we did our best and we all made it back to Jenny and Bob's house.