4th of July 2013

 

I spent the morning of July third in the kitchen making homemade biscuits, fried chicken, potato salad and all the fixings.  When Tyler got off work we loaded up and went to the Auburn airport to enjoy an evening of watching low flying single engine airplanes.  Once the sun went down I busted out the collection of dollar store glow sticks I had purchased.  Around ten the fireworks at Emerald Downs Horse Track began. 

This was our second summer of doing this and we all enjoy it.  The low flying coming and going of the airplanes keeps the children entertained until the sun goes down.  We also get to enjoy the fabulous Emerald Downs fireworks show without spending a ton of money or by over stimulating the children at the horse track.  The kids love the fireworks, hooting and hollering at the most spectacular sequences.

We slept in on the fourth and enjoyed a big breakfast before heading out to Auburn’s Red, White & Blue Fourth of July festivities at Les Grove Park.  We enjoyed the playground, a petting zoo, the radio Disney booth had some fun crafts & dance music, the kids got “face” painted and we walked around the car show. 

Tyler had to work on the fifth at five in the morning so we didn’t want to travel far from home or stay out late.  We headed home for dinner and made a fort in the living room to watch the Seattle fireworks show on TV.  Poor Issac was fighting to stay up and watch the fireworks and he almost made it; had the lady singing the national anthem had sang the song faster!!! AND DO NOT act like you’ve never had such a thought, I too love the national anthem but geeze; how many e’s can you add to “oh, say can you seeeeeeeee?” 

All in all it was an awesome low key Independence Day.  We had good food, good fireworks and created good memories. What more could we ask for?