4th of July

This year's 4th of July had many 1st things.  I have never been brave to try and take the kids to parades and such.  It just seemed to big of a challenge to do and the kids were so little.  But deep down I have wanted to get more involved in the communities we have lived in going to the community events.  Now that we have a house we get a monthly newsletter with our water bill each month that tells us what is happening, so we have started to go to different things.

This year we got the kids up really early and got ready to go to the church breakfast they were doing at 7am.  We went and had lots of yummy food!  Thanks Tooele 26th Ward for an amazing breakfast!

Then we went to the city parade.  We have never taken the kids to a parade before.  They collected at least 2 lb bag of candy!  We had a lot of fun.  After the parade we walked down the block to the city park and participated in some of the other events they had and we got lunch at the local Elk Lodge booth.

Kids with their flags! 

Waiting for the parade to start, the candy they got and a picture of the school color guard, which made me think of my sister when she use to do it!

Dillon ate the whole thing he was covered in Cotton Candy!

Pictures of the parade and events after.

We had a lot of fun going to the fireworks!  Dan did not join us as he had to go to work early this morning.  The kids were asleep in the car right after I started driving. 

We had so much fun this year that we are excited for the next community event to get involved in.

We hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!

Love the DnA Burke Family