Fantastic 4th!

We had a great 4th of July. It all started July 1st, we had a church picnic and celebration at our church office/house. (It is a house that's been converted to office space across the street from our actual building.) The boys had so much fun. There were right at 90 people there, a great turn out. Jonathan worked on the 4th but when he got home we went for a walk and then did a few fireworks. You could only buy the little ones b/c our area is so dry right now but it was still lots of fun for the boys.

Jon Michael and Matthew playing volleyball.

Kids water balloon toss.

Adult water balloon toss. Pastor Mike and his son won...think that was rigged?

Since we couldn't do fireworks, the kids popped packing bubbles. It was crazy how much it sounded like black cats being set off.

Tammi getting in on the "firework" action!

Jon Michael loves smoke bombs, especially since Daddy lets him light them himself now.

A tank face off.

Getting ready to do battle with the tanks.

A firefight!

About 11pm, we could hear big fireworks going off in some of the neighborhoods, so Jonathan took the boys outside to sit on top of the expedition and watch them....such a good daddy.

We hope your 4th was great, I was reminded over the holiday how amazingly blessed we are to live in the United States and thanked God for that.