4th of July

We did have a pretty good 4th of July even though it rained most of the time and ruined our plans of heading to Wamego for their annual parade and fireworks. On Saturday our neighborhood and a big get together. This is an annual gather around this weekend, but it was our first time attending. It was fun to meet some neighbors farther down from us and there was a ton of good food. There was also a small fireworks show when it got dark. Conner slept through it all in his stroller. Sunday the rain let up enough for us to have our own little firework show. Kaylee and Daddy went on Saturday to pick out some fireworks. Kaylee enjoyed picking them out, but then didn't want us to light them. :) Setting up the firework for Daddy. Running away fast because they are too loud!

Watching one that stays on the ground.

And then after we were all done lighting the fireworks it was time to clean them up. Kaylee thought of the idea to take her wheelbarrow around the yard to pick them up. The wind was just blowing right the night before and we had a ton of fireworks in our yard and a couple on our roof.

Here Daddy and Kaylee are picking them up.

It started raining again so we didn't think Manhattan was going to light their fireworks so we just put the kids to bed, but around 10 we heard the really loud ones going off. It's a good thing these kids are so used to Fort Riley that they slept right through them.