4th of July

4th of July has turned out to be a big deal with our family, because my husband always seems to be gone during that holiday so the wife and children pack up and go spend the 4th with him, we have been to Mesquite (of course cause that's where we live), St. George, Brian Head Utah, Provo Utah, Afton Wyoming, and now Dickinson North Dakota. We got here the night before, and got to listen to fireworks being shot of all around us (they don't have a no fireworks law even the ones that can go up in the air). Morning of the 4th we layed around camp, yes I said camp my husband has been living in our camp trailer for the last month, and that is where we get to live for the next month. Dickinson had their parade on Saturday so we drove 30 minutes away to Killdeer for a parade what a lot of fun! We couldn't pick up the candy fast enough and there were 8 kids trying, it put the Mesquite parades to shame.


Not only did we get to spend the 4th with Lance as a family, but Payton and his family were here, (we carpooled together), and Kelby and Alyson. The pictures above are us waiting for the parade to start.

Here they are just chillin, the weather was perfect, there was not one complaint that they were hot behind us was a small forest so they played back there until the parade started.
After the parade we headed home and waited till dinner time, we were going to go to a city bbq, but the food was bad and the price was high, so we found a restaurant instead. After dinner we came back and started shooting off fireworks, the kids had a blast watching them go off, some of the fireworks we had to wonder which way they were heading, we must of had an off batch, pretty funny to watch even the dads run away.


Lance was the designated lighter, notice Lance and blue flinching away from the fireworks they were chickens!


The kids wouldn't slow down, they wanted more and more fireworks, Lance got victor to hold the one of the rockets and it shot off in his hands.
Finally the fireworks ended, and now we moved onto the sparklers



Sparklers are so much fun it was really watching the excitement and showing them fun ways to use the sparklers like spelling out their names. Then we ended the night by watching the fireworks show at our camp site!