Happy Fourth of July! For some reason, the Fourth is my favorite holiday. I think the reason I love it just as much as Christmas is that it has the excitement and thrills of a holiday, but it’s contained in one day. Kimberly and I were talking about how it’s surprising that I haven’t planned out a whole agenda of week-long events for the fourth each year with parades and area fireworks. Then I realized as I was preparing this blog, the reason I don’t is that I love the charm of a one day holiday. All the other holidays I love and celebrate with such enthusiasm last awhile and that causes them to lose some charm. Even Thanksgiving gets stretched out to more than one day with family or traveling involved. Please don’t hear me complain. I LOVE family gatherings and holidays. I just also love simplicity sometimes. And the Fourth of July offers that for me. Here’s how we spent this glorious holiday this year.
We started out by celebrating Uncle Denny’s birthday with fishing, pedal boating
and eating.
And finished by attending the gorgeous fireworks display in Champaign.
I do not know why everyone else can get great snapshots of the fireworks. I took a ton and all of them turned out horribly.
As usual, I took way too many pics. There was so much laughing going on with each picture, I can’t possibly blog them all. There were several photo shoots happening all day between group shots and family shots. I will spare you the pictures of me rolling backwards down the hill attempting family photos… 🙂 But please, if you’re family and in the mood for pics, check them out!! The rest of you will probably want to log off right about now.