Fourth of July...

We enjoyed a day of festivities to celebrate the 4th of July. We started off the morning with a pancake breakfast and flag ceremony at the church. Whitney was most excited about the bike parade they had outside for the kids afterwards. She was reminding her friends all week to decorate their bikes for the parade. Jim then headed out with some friends to play a few rounds of disc golf. Later in the afternoon we headed to another friends house for a BBQ, swimming, and lawn games. The girls were both little fish and swam for the majority of the 4 hours until it got dark. We headed across the street to watch the fireworks across the water while sitting out on the dock. It reminded me of the years we spent at Lake of the Woods at my grandparents cabin watching fireworks over the lake while sitting on the dock. Maren was not a big fan of the fireworks especially the really loud ones that the neighbors were setting off nearby.