Festive Fourth

What a fun and exhausting 4th of July!!! The day started with trying to get 2 floats, 1 truck, my kids, and 50 little girls ready for the parade. Brooklyn marched with the mini-drill team, and did a fabulous job. (She was even with the oldest group - way to go!!) Jensen and Brittany had a blast watching the parade, catching candy, getting sprayed by the fire engines, and watching all the great floats. Then we un-assembled floats, and went to the park for some fun. The kids played all the games for kids, and even won some prizes at some of the booths. Then we hung out at the dunking booth for quite awhile (the drillteam was in charge of the dunking booth). Brooklyn was dunked once, and wasn't quite sure she wanted to go again, Brittany didn't want to try it, and Jensen was a repeated dunkee. He had so much fun getting dunked over and over again! He would sit on the bench, and plug his nose, but when the seat went down, both hands flew up, and water went in his nose anyway. Then it was time to dive for dollars!! Brooklyn was lined up on the side of the pool with TONS of other kids. When the whistle blew, she had a hard time getting anywhere where there was room enough to dive down for the money. Then she just kept diving down! She ended up with $5.05. Not bad eh? Then we ventured over to watch the horseshoe tournament (where BJ's nephew's were competing.) The girls went to free swim, but Jensen was too young, so he and his cousin went to the ballpark where fire engines were spraying water. Needless to say, they had a lot of fun, and they found the mud. (See video) Then it was home to clean up, then to the park for dinner, and over to JC Hunt for fireworks. BJ's sister and her husband have a business that is right across the street from where the fireworks are launched, so we had great seats, complete with drinks and popcorn! The fireworks were fabulous! All in all, it was a great 4th, done wonderfully in Blanding style!! Happy Birthday America!