Happy 4th of July!

For the fourth of July this year we attended the 2nd annual neighborhood party that was held in the open space behind our house. I have to thank Julie and Denise for planning the whole thing. The kids love it and the adults hang out, talk and eat. What can be better. We started the party with the pledge, which Kurt led, the bike parade was next, and then the water games, face painting, snow cone machine, and cotton candy began. Raegan was even brave enough to sit under Darrels home-made dunk tank, which dumped four huge buckets of ice cold water on your head for about 30 seconds. Kurt was into making the rockets like you wouldn't believe, and Macy is like her mom and wanted to just sit and eat treats. It was a pretty great day.

Decorating the Jeep for the big parade.

Waving at the crowd like a pro as she drove down the path.

Some of the fun things to do.

The more wild Raegan could go down the slide the better. She loved every minute.

Macy on the other hand, is a different story. She was basically set into the water in this picture and you can see how much she loved it.

This is more her cup of tea. It's just the way she rolls.

Raegan dunking herself, she did this several times throughout the day.

Kurt hard at work on Raegans rocket, I think he ended up making one for every kid in the neighborhood. Maybe he should be a rocket scientist. Something to consider during his job hunt.

3,2,1, BLAST OFF! These rockets were being shot off by our backyard and I would guess a couple hundred rockets landed in our fenced backyard and there were 4 on our roof. Poor kids had to go searching through our yard for their precious paper rockets.