4th of July

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This year for the 4th of July Jon and I decided we were going to have fun and not end up giving up what we want to do just to do something that someone else wants us to do.  A lot of times we will have a plan of what we want in mind but who ever we are planning on doing it with has another idea in mind and we end up being the ones who give up our own wants.  This is not always a bad thing but it can get frustrating at times. So this year we took charge of our 4th and had a blast.  We wanted Baylee to get to see a parade again since the last one she went to scared the heck out of her because of some stupid guy thinking he was funny.  Anyway that is another story another time.  We got up and headed down to get a good spot for the Melba parade.  We had a lot of fun watching the girls enjoy this parade.  Baylee had just had surgery a week before and her hearing was so much better that she had to keep covering her ears because everything was so much louder to her.  She stood and waved and got tons and tons of candy! Abi loved it so much as well that she would not go to sleep. 
After the parade we headed home and just relaxed as a family for a little bit and tried to let the girls relax so we could go to the fireworks later without having super cranky girls.  Baylee did not nap and Abi only took one short one. 
We had dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Svedin and then loaded up in the truck to go get a spot for the fireworks.  Baylee loves fireworks but we knew it would hurt her ears so we didn’t want to be super close plus we had heard that about 10,000 people go to these fireworks and it can take about 2 hours to get out of town when they are over so we parked along a road outside of town to watch them.  We were not alone in this thinking by the time the fireworks started there were cars parked for miles on every road around this place!  We put a few blankets in the back of the truck and just hung out playing games and taking pictures (on jon’s phone sorry I don’t have them to post) When the fireworks started(about 10:30) the girls got so excited.  Abi stood up to the edge of the truck and just smiled and squealed while baylee danced around the truck singing very loudly christmas songs.  When we got home after 11 neither of the girls where asleep and neither really wanted to but mom and Dad where tired and made them go to bed.  It was a great day just spent together doing what we wanted and loving time together as a family.