Independence Day Pre-Party

The weekend before the Fourth of July, Rachel and Matt invited us to a party at the country club with Rachel's family. We figured, why not? It would be nice to let the kids watch some fireworks without the whole, long Brockway 4th before hand! Turns out, this was a GREAT party! The kids (and Daddy and me) had a great time! LOTS of kids' activities (bounce houses, face painting, sand traps as sandboxes, you know) and yummy food and FIREWORKS!

Taking in ALL the fun...


Oh yeah! That's FUN!


Colin actually won this particular activity!




I'm not sure how the groundskeepers feel about this annual party...


The kids easily stayed up for the 9:45 fireworks. They were very excited to see fireworks for the first time. I think Colin was afraid that they were going to be REALLY loud though, so he started covering his ears about 10 minutes before the set off the first firework! He kept them covered almost the whole time though, but at the end he dropped his hands and just enjoyed them. I was hearing lots of WOAHs and LOOK AT THAT! from both kids. They both gave fireworks two THUMBS UP. Daddy and I did NOT give two thumbs up to the 7:00 am wake up time that both kids observed the next morning....