Every year around Christmas, all the family that lives here in California (on mom's side) get together for a big family party. This year, she decided that it would be fun to do a big family party during the summertime as well, and what made it even better was that even more of the family was down here from Idaho too! It made for a busy few days with lots and lots of family. Because of work, I have not been able to make it to the family Christmas party for several years, and being that it is the only time some of us really ever get together, there were lots of people there that I haven't seen in years, as well as several of the newest members of the family that I got to meet for the first time. Though there are many many kids in a broad age range, they got along those two days amazingly well and we had a fantastic time!
Every year our city puts on a little firework show at a park across town. We are not the type to deal with the traffic and parking and the mess of people, so rather we decided to walk down the street a ways where we would be able to see the fireworks from semi close to home. We first parked it on a nice grassy little knoll on the corner of the street but once the fireworks began, we realized that it wasn't a great view, so we crossed the street and sat on the cement corner to view. Turns out, the actual best view was from the middle of the street, so on occasion we would press the button to stop traffic just to walk across the street (and for a little entertainment as well, turns out the further you are from the actual fireworks, the less interesting they really are to watch!) Cayden claims that this was "the worst view of the fireworks in the WHOLE world!" but we ended up having a fun tie and just enjoyed each other's company and the spirit of the holiday. The kids sang patriotic songs as we stood on the corner of this street and frankly we all probably looked a little foolish, but it was a great end the a couple of fun filled days!
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Shawna i had so much fun too i loved it and just got home yesdturday and want to come back we will see you sometime soon though Love you Michaela
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