This year for the fourth of July we had clouds, rain and 80 degree temperatures! It was amazing.
Since the holiday was on a Wednesday this year, and last year we were stuck in a parking garage until midnight, we opted for weekend fireworks. In downtown Mesa there is a Celebration of Freedom. We went last year and the kids loved the water slides and bounce houses. This year we went to the pool in the afternoon and then decided to just wait until the fireworks started to go. We parked in an empty lot (with only a couple other cars) and had a great view with no crowd. It was sweet. We forgot our chairs and there were a lot of little thorny things getting into our flip flops so we didn't want to put the blanket down. The back of the van worked great. We went with our friends and the boys loved having Brooklyn hang out in our car for a while. It was a pretty long/decent fireworks show. The kids need more opportunites for fireworks than just the 4th. They really love them. Here we all our with our glow sticks.
Then on the 4th we just hung out and enjoyed the rain for most of the day. We ate Hudson's birthday lunch at Grimaldi's and went to Grandma's house for dinner. She set up a backyard pool and by the end the whole backyard was a pool. The boys loved it.
Then we ate some great food and did some firecrackers. A nice, relaxing, fun day!
Hudson's birthday shirt doubled as his patriotic 4th of July outfit. I figured cut off jeans went perfectly with "White Trash Christmas!"
2 comments:
Good thing you weren't here for the 4th. It was SO hot and muggy. the humidity here makes it extremely uncomfortable. Our feet felt like they were on fire while we watched the parade. We all had to go because Megan was on the Girl Scout float. And she didn't even throw out candy to the family that was there. (She said: We weren't supposed to throw candy to our family.") Haha! So obedient!
Poor Porter! His dirty face makes him look like a street urchin in a Charles Dickens story would look.
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