Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Independence Day 2012

On July 4th we decided to stay around the house and do fun things just with our little family of four.  Makenna had seen sparklers before but had never been allowed to touch them on her own.  This year we decided that she was old enough to hold the sparklers as long as Toby or I was right next to her:-)



She didn't last too long with the sparklers because she didn't like the smoke that they produced.  She probably would have been more enthusiastic about them if it had been dark when we did them.  Then she could have seen the cool shapes that she could make when she waved them in the air.  But, we aren't technically supposed to have fireworks in our area and it was going to be too late once we got back from the fireworks show to do them then.  So we did them in the late evening when we had time.

While we were doing sparklers Kyler of course hung out with us too and did his job of looking cute!

Then it was time to go to the fireworks show down at the high school.  We first went and let Makenna go on a few of the fair rides that they had there before we settled down on our blanket for the show.



We ate chocolate chip cookies, let Makenna run around for a few minutes, and then it was time for the fireworks to begin.

Makenna loved the show and Kyler somehow slept through the whole noisy thing.  We were extremely impressed by the finale though.  Toby and I have been to many fireworks show in our time but we have never seen a finale that lit up the sky as much as this one had.  It was spectacular night!