The Party on the 4th of July

I know the 4th of July was a little while ago, but I had to get these pictures from my mom. The 4th of July is such a party at our house. It all starts at the Kaysville Parade. This is Ben and Max while we were waiting for the parade to start. The first part of the parade is a normal parade and the people throw candy out. The second part of the parade is a water parade and everyone gets in a HUGE water fight. You can see all the water we had in the street. All those buckets and coolers are FULL of water for the water parade!

Max loved playing in the water! He would swirl his hands in the water and then throw his hands up in the air. You can see all the people in the street. This was the part of the parade that they threw candy.

Here the water parade has started! You can see my mom and dad. Oli has the shirt with the D on it. Ben (my brother) has one of the guns and Ben and I are on the other side of Ben trying to protect Max. My dad made those white water guns. They held tons of water. We had the buckets of water to suck up with the water guns and get the people on the floats.
Everyone with the guns would pick someone to get and then all ambush them. Everyone was soaked by the end!

After the parade we walked down to Grandma Lloyd's house (Ben's Grandma) and had waffles. They were so good!

My parents have a big party. They play Human Battleship. If you have never played it is way fun. You get a volleyball net and put sheets over it so you can't see the other side. Then you have a bucket of water balloons (this year we had water balls). There is a shooter for each side and the rest of the people lay down on the ground. Then the shooters throw the balloons over the net and try to hit people. If you get hit by the balloon, you are out.

We watched the fireworks at Davis High. My parents can see them really good from their backyard. My mom gets glow sticks for all the kids. This year they had about 100 people in their backyard. All the neighbors come over to see the fireworks. There were lots of kids so the whole backyard was full of lights. It was really cool.

We LOVE the 4th of July!

Silly Max

When I get the pictures back I will write about the fourth, we had tons of fun. I just wanted to tell about how funny Max is. He has been so crabby today. He was throwing things and hitting everything. Welcome to the terrible two's. When I was having him get ready for bed he would only go to bed if he had two cinnamon rolls in his hands. I let him hold them for a little bit while I read him his new favorite book, "There's an animal strike at the zoo, it's true!" (We have to read it every night. He goes and finds it so we can read it.) Then when he was falling asleep I took the cinnamon rolls away. The funny thing is he doesn't even like them.