Week of the 4th - of July

The 4th of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. I LOVE fireworks. All my brothers and their kids come to visit, and it is fun to have the family all together. We do a lot of fun activities while everyone is in town!
To start the week off, we went to Water World. The kids had a BLAST as did the adults. My brothers, Matt and I decided our favorite slide was the timed racer slide where all 6 of you can go at once and it times you to see who is the fastest. Well, Matt won EVERY SINGLE TIME. We all decided that if we every win the lottery we are installing that slide in our backyard. It is so fun. The toilet bowl slide (The completely enclosed pitch black one) was pretty scary, and it was hilarious to watch each of us get "dropped" into blackness, and then spun around and around only to be dropped into ICE COLD water. (If you watch from the bottom you can see everyone go through it, though while in it you can't see anything). Not a ride for the weak at heart. We got there right when it opened and stayed until close!

Another day we thought it would be fun to go to Hammond's Candy Tour. (It's okay, nothing super special, but the kids had fun so that's what counts). The kids LOVED all the candy in the candy store, and each picked out some very fun treats!


We also took a ride (in 3 cars) up to Red Rocks to show the kids some of the mountains, and the amphitheater. They had a blast running up and down the stairs (not so easy coming up)! and climbing some of the smaller (kid friendly) rocks. They wanted to see a concert there, so hopefully next year there will be a good one playing we can all go to.


On the actual 4th, we had a big get together at my parents house. It is a open house, everyone invited kind of event. We had so many people over and stopping by, it was so fun to see everyone. Scott and Meg were in town so it was fun to have them over, too! My Mom kind of goes all out for this event, so we had pretty much anything you could want. TONS of food, and drinks, and she had set up a table for the kids to make cotton candy and sno-cones. Zayne was in charge and had so much fun making them for all the kids. I am pretty sure they were all on a very high sugar rush the entire day, but they had so much fun, they were outside running around all day, playing at the park across the street and in the yard. My parents live across from 2 big parks, which is really nice for the kids, and even better, we all walked across the street at night to go watch the fireworks. Didn't have to drive anywhere, and we saw 2 different displays, perfectly!
We also walked over to the fields where they have a huge outdoor event of tents, bounce houses, kid activities, face painting, balloon animals, etc. The kids had a great time, even though it was so HOT!