F is for the Fireworks, Friends and Fun

The morning of the Fourth we headed off to the annual Fourth of July pancake breakfast, parade, and celebration put on by our church and community. We love going every year, and appreciate even more now that we're not the ones making all that pancake batter.

We had our breakfast and headed off to prepare for the parade. The boys found our friend Porter and started dancing to the music blasting. Max has some pretty sweet moves.

In fact they all do.

While we were dressing in the morning Levi insisted on wearing his 'hunting hat'. Luckily Max decided to leave his superman mask and superman cape in the van.

Waiting, waiting.....

While we were waiting we got the best spirit award.

I don't know what exactly that means or how we were the ones who decided we had it, but let's just say I know the judge.

A slow start.

But this year we decided we'd bring candy to throw to all the kids which the boys and their friends thoroughly enjoyed. Two of our fiends came along with us for most of the time and helped pass them out.

There were a ton of people there this year, it seemed like way more than the last.

Max volunteering to help the clown.

We went on a few bouncy houses.

After all the excitement and games we headed home to get ready for a family and friends BBQ which was a lot of fun. We got to hang out with some people who I haven't really gotten to know very well before and Aunt Katie and Uncle Aaron were in from Alaska to celebrate the day.

This is where I put the camera down. I've found I do that more often than not on bigger holidays so I end up with very few pictures of the day. Jason fired up the grill and everyone made some amazing food. After our stomachs settled we had smores and got the fireworks started with some worms and pop-its.

Then the fireworks began! Max was much more into it this year. Last year he was pretty terrified of the whole affair. Everyone loved sparklers and picking out which firework we did next.

Overall a great day!

F words for the day: fun, foot, fill, fan, fin, food, fall, fad, feet, for, fig,