This year we were excited to have a chance to celebrate our Canadian heritage. Lily made a really good friend in her class at school, and we were excited when we discovered that her parents were from Canada. They are a great family, and we have enjoyed getting to know them. They invited the us and some neighborhood friends over for a morning mile run and a pancake breakfast. They had festive decorations, and shared their balloons and tattoos with us.
July 4th was hot and humid. Our ward and 5th ward hosted a pancake breakfast at the new pavilion that was just completed at our meetinghouse. It was a fun event: children's bike parade, face painting, pie-eating contest, stick-pulling, and breakfast. We had a nice time.
In the afternoon we got a really big rainstorm. We had hamburgers for dinner and watched a family movie that evening, then ate a red, white, and blue cake (angel food with cream and strawberries and blueberries).
As it got darker the kids did pop-its and a few sparklers. It was a little windy and prepping for more of a storm, but it ended up passing us by. Jared set off some fireworks for us. There were quite a few going off in our neighborhood, so Jared took the kids for a walk to see some of them. Zach was pretty afraid of the loud fireworks, but they all survived. It was a nice holiday for us.
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