4TH OF JULY

This year we went with some friends the Wood family to the fairgrounds to watch the FIREWORKS. Earlier in the day I took the boys to the KID PARADE, and the CARNIVAL GAMES at the local park by our house. I had a hard time taking them by myself because I know that there is going to be lots of families and I am going by myself. But we went and MASON had fun. I forgot my camera,(I am still trying to remember to take it places). The best entry was a power wheels car, and on the side it said,"PRESIDENT OBAMA & FIRST LADY", It had the cutest black kids in the car, (they were only 2 years old). Mason then went off to play the Carnival games. I thought that it was $1.00 a ticket so I said,"$5.00 of tickets", well it was 4 for a $1.00 so we had a lot of tickets. There was about 8 games. So we did them all and you would get little toys that were 10 cents worth but If you got the Grande Prize you get a FREE Snow Cone. Mason won 3 FREE SNOW CONES. The last game he played the guys told him his was the first one to win a snow cone. That made him feel good. By this time we had been gone for 1 hour and Chase was bright red and we were hot so we went to get the Snow Cones and we still had 8 tickets left. Mason said,"THROW THOSE TICKETS AWAY AND LETS GET OUT OF HERE BECAUSE IT IS HOT!" So we found a family that didn't have very many that we gave them to them. I think that the morning was fun and it got us out of the house. We then got invited to go to Judy's house (Darren's sec.) to go swimming. So I remembered sun screen for the boys but forgot myself.......so I am one RED LOBSTER................ Then we waited for Darren to get off work. Then we went to the fireworks this year.
This is us waiting for the FIREWORKS too start................

Our friends every year go to the fairgrounds and take pie & ice cream while we wait for the fireworks to start at 8:55 pm. (Morgan, Mason, Victoria, Benson)

There is KYM with the Pie as Mason is waiting patiently for a PIECE. It was so nice that they invited us with them because we don't have family up here and never have family around us on 4th of July holiday so it is nice that they make us feel like family. They don't have family as well and up here everyone has family.

Alittle snap shot of the FIREWORKS ..................... While most of you enjoy the Fireworks we have one Son who hates the loud noises and the other one we weren't sure how he would do. We usually go some where in our truck so that it is not loud but can see them. But we went where they launch them. Here is the results of the night.....................

Mason had to have his ears pluged, while Chase LOVED them. He would point and OOOOH, AND AAAH! Mason wanted to leave after 5 minutes of them. All day he talked about the Fireworks and then the time came and he couldn't do it but he did watch. This picture made his eyes close. We were so close that the ash would hit us and sparks hit the stroller and legs. Over all it was fun but next year we will just do our truck so that we won't smell like smoke and be clean.