Fourth of July!

We had a nice 4th of July this year! It was a beautiful, hot day. Merrick took the girls to the Wauwatosa Parade in the morning. The girls had fun with their friends Paige and Peyton.
 
Apparently Camryn was a champion flag waver. And they got a good amount of candy for their candy bags, which was the whole point, right?

Then that afternoon we went over to our friends house for a barbecue. They set up a slip n slide and a kiddie pool and the girls had a lot of fun with their friends.


Then we went to Sussex Village Park to watch the fireworks. Camryn had so much fun running around in the grass barefoot.

My aunt, uncle, and cousins also showed up (they recently moved here) and joined us for the fireworks. The girls love my cousins. They have 2 teenage girls and 4 boys that are a few years older than my girls and they love to play with them. So cute. Here they are cuddling with Jacob during the fireworks:

I think my favorite part of the night was actually right before the fireworks started – someone nearby started setting off chinese lanterns. Like a lot of them. Totally just like the floating lights in the Tangled movie. Very magical. (Kind of dangerous too – floating fire?). I wasn’t able to get a good picture, unfortunately.
But the fireworks were good too and we had a really good time.

Hope you had a nice Fourth too!