4th of July

We celebrated our first 4th of July in Grantsville. We had some good friends, John and Rika and Macks, over for breakfast. Then we headed over to the parade together. I was really impressed with it. I though it would be really small but it wasn't at all! Lucy did a wonderful job collecting candy for mommy. She had her own little bag that she had decorated for the candy and she did great. A few weeks before we had attended the Miss Tooele Pageant and Lucy got to sit on the "princess' " lap. Well, she was in the parade and waved at Lucy!

 Candy!!

I can't decide if she's stealing candy in this picture, or sharing. 

Lucy's princess friends.

Afterwards, we headed to the Grantsville celebration at the high school. They had a ton of carnival-type activities and it was all FREE! I have never been to something like this for a whole city that was free. Lucy had a ton of fun playing in all of the bounce houses, obstacle courses and going down a massive water slide. It was fun. Now that we know about it we will be a little bit more prepared next year for it.

This first video is awesome. Lucy is so much more brave than I ever was. She loved it!

Later that evening we had a mock BBQ at our house with some other friends Britney and Danny. Later that evening we saw the Grantsville fireworks. They set them off from the high school's soccer field and they allow you to sit on the bleachers around it. We were really close. It was the best firework show I have EVER seen! It was all done manually and they had 9 firefighters with flares constantly setting them off. The whole show was like a finale and then the actual finale was pretty much a mega-finale. I don't know how else to describe it. My father-in-law would have loved it. They also had a DJ and music to go along with the show. AMAZING!