Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Independence Day.

This is one of my favorite holidays.

I don't know the exact reason.

Patriotism

Family

Being Together

I love what it represents.

 Something that our forefathers fought so hard for.

Something that seemed impossible to obtain.

We achieved the unthinkable.

Independence

I look forward to this holiday every year.

Dressing the kids up in red, white, and blue

The patriotic songs we here

All of it.

So, for our festivities:

We started at our neighborhood pancake breakfast.

After, I made them pose for pictures.

They seemed all happy to do it.

Which was amazing to me.

So we really went with it.

Thanks to pinterest and their great ideas.

We took so many pictures.

All the different varieties 

Even with Bella.

Then, it was off to the lake with the fam.

We had everything we needed.

Great company

Nice hot day

"Yummies"

We cannot go anywhere 

without the yummies

Then, we had our annual BBQ

We completed our evening 

with fireworks of course!

Connor, kept finding all sorts of treasures

in my parents garage.

If you have ever seen the garage

You will know what I am talking about.

He used this as his gun

He did not like the loud "popping" sound so much.

At the end of the night

We looked at the mountain

This was the view

Not fireworks

One of the many fires.

This fire was on the other side of this mountain

It crept all the way up.

This picture is almost surreal to me.

Fireworks

Temple

Fire in the background 

Sign of the times I think.