4th of July

For our 4th of July celebrations we joined a bunch of friends at Bishop Weiss' work for fun games, yummy food, and, of course, an absolutely amazing fireworks display!

Tori and Garrett got pretty good at corn hole!

Two years ago, we got Tori her princess chair for this exact same event. So, Daddy went on a mission to find Garrett a chair for tonight. He found an awesome cars chair- which Garrett was tickled to pieces with!!!

 Tori loved all the yummy food- especially the popcorn and rice crispy treats!

 Garrett and Daddy's motorcycle ride!!!

I'm not sure if Garrett liked it or not!

Tori was picking up on ladder golf, Garrett was content to try and eat the golf balls!

Sigh- our children have never, ever liked sparklers. But each year we try again in hopes that one year they will realize how neat they really are and enjoy it. This is how we started out with Garrett- complete terror!

And this was as close as we could get Tori to the sparkler- at least she was smiling!

 But, after much coaxing, we finally got Garrett to at least smile and try and grab a sparkler!

 And, miracle of miracles, we got Tori to actually hold a sparkler!!!

Hurrah, Tori likes sparklers!!!

Happy 4th of July everyone!  I love that we have a day set apart to remember, and focus on, all the wonderful freedoms we enjoy in this country each day! I know that I take them for granted, but I really am so grateful for them!!!