Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July! 

or

 Happy Celebrate America! as Hannah would say

The girls and grandma comparing iPad backgrounds

 Mom and I took the girls for a walk today.

Well, actually mom and I walked while the girls drove their Barbie car....must be rough, huh?

They loved it and even brought along their iPod so they could play music.

Things were going so smooth so we decided to take the long route.  We got to the half way point and needed to turn around.  It was Hailey's turn to drive but the car wasn't moving very fast....uh oh.

We wondered if she had put it into slow mode or wasn't pushing all the way down on the pedal.

Nope, no such luck.  We were running out of battery power.

SHOOT!

Hannah and my mom started walking back to the cabin a little faster so they could get my mom's van so we could hitch a ride back.  I leaned over and started to push the car and with Hailey pushing on the pedal we were actually moving pretty good so we decided to try to make it, or at least as far as we could before we would be stranded waiting for grandma and Hannah to rescue us.

When we got back onto the main stretch of road Hannah turned around and saw that I was pushing, she immediately came over and told me that she could help and she took over pushing.

WHAT A KID!

We made it back and didn't need grandma's van after all but I think we will think twice about doing that again.

 

 Brian worked hard today on the deck so when it came time to head into town to see the fireworks it seemed appropriate for him to stay put and do some relaxing (finally!).

We went to Braham, about 15 min away.

It's such a small town that I am pretty sure we were the only ones there that nobody knew.

The girls did great while we sat and waited for the show to start.  

The sky was FULL of fireflies.  At one point you could look into the field and it actually looked like glitter, it was super cool.  It's been a while since I have seen fireflies and pretty sure this was the first time the girls were actually exposed to them where they cared enough to watch for them and point them out.  They were pretty interested.

The show started a little after 10 and lasted for 15 min or so.  

Pretty sure summer has officially started!