4th of July activities

We had a pretty fun 4th considering we have been in our house for less than a week. First we heard about a neighborhood parade that was going on on Saturday. So we decorated the kids bikes and and headed over to the park. The kids thought it was awesome. Ava was loving being dressed up and riding her bike down the road. Poor Dresden was bringing up the rear. His little 4-wheeler is so slow! It's definitely time for a big boy bike! After riding around the neighborhood they had juice and cookies (best cookies ever) for everyone at the park. It's nice that park is walking distance from our house. And one day when it's not 100 degrees we will go there again!

For some reason the big city fireworks here were being done on Saturday. So we headed to a big field to watch them. The kids were into it for about 2 seconds and then they were all over the place. They still had fun running around together though. And somehow we lost my favorite pair of Dresden's shoes. Boo!

The next day was our first day at church. I was very surprised at how small our ward is but everyone was sooooo nice! There were having a pancake breakfast for the 4th so we were excited for that. We met some great families and even two other residents from the school that are in our ward! woo hoo! They also had a little bike parade so lucky for us the kids bikes were still decorated. I am so happy we are where we are, I love our ward. We even got invited for a little 4th of July BBQ. It was so fun and nice to get to know some of the other families. We played bocci ball and then did fireworks. Ava also caught her first lighting bug! She was so excited, none of us have even seen one before. I was not good at getting pictures but here are a few.