Festivities and the Fourth

Happy Fourth of July

It was a busy weekend full of festivities, family and nonstop fun! We spent lots of nights by the fire making s'mores and lighting sparklers. We made the whole weekend the Fourth of July and did sparklers nightly!

Fresh from a bath, we headed outside for some sparklers. As you can see, her hair is still wet.

Grammy likes sparklers too!

Every time we lit a sparkler, Dawson was just full of smiles!

One day, we headed down to a park with our old bread to feed the ducks. There is a playground, kid rides and some hungry ducks!

and, they have a concession stand. This is Dawson's first snow cone. It was a hot day and this really hit the spot!

On the Fourth, we put our hats on and got ready for the golf cart parade...always a hit with Dawson!

After the parade, we snacked on some red, white and blue jello cups. These were really good!

We had some fun with these light up snakes. You light these black pellets and out comes a giant snake made of ashes. She loved doing these in the driveway. Again and again and again!

And when you put two on top of each other, a bigger snake is made! Anyone remember doing these in the past? We did them all the time growing up!