Fourth of July

We started our Independence Day celebration with a little crafting. I made a flag decoration for our kitchen and the kids decorated wooden stars.

 

We did a little lesson plan on the American flag and Independence Day.  After the lesson, I asked the kids "Can you tell Daddy who wrote the Declaration of Independence?" They all thought about it, and then Clayton piped in..."ummm... Jeffer Michaleson?" We definitely had a good laugh about that.

 

We went to the Lake Bluff parade with our neighbors, Angie, Scott, Emily, and Braden.

 This is the crazy lady next to us that took, maybe 245,000 picture of her kids and the people she was with. She also stopped the parade at a few times for some of those pictures and proceeded to accost anyone handing out anything to personally hand out something to every one of her children.  Seriously, lady??!!?? She was so over-the-top, she seemed like an SNL character.

 

After the parade, we went to Westmoreland with my parents, Taylor, Jess, Kellan, and Makenna.

 

 

 

 

Then on to the fireworks!

 

I LOVE Austin's reaction to all the fireworks :)