Our 4th of July was pretty low key. The older boys spent all last week with Corey's parents so I had just the 3 younger kids to myself. It has been ridiculously hot so we knew we weren't going to go far.
The kids played all morning in the toy room, then after lunch we decided to go to the movie. We saw Despicable Me 2, the kids loved it. Then we came home and spent the rest of the afternoon swimming. We generally BBQ on the 4th, but it was too hot to even do that so we settled on pizza. Then went out front for fireworks.
Our neighborhood has always had a good fireworks show. We don't even need to go anywhere. We bought a box of our own to set off while we waited for all the big ones to go off. We also did a lot of sparklers. A lot. We had quite a few boxes of our own and then the neighbor gave all his boxes to our kids when his daughter ended up being scared of them. My kids thought it was great.
I always miss having family around to celebrate with on big holidays, but am grateful for my own little family. Grateful to celebrate our freedoms and blessings we enjoy living in this country. Even if it is in extreme heat!
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