4th of July, the Pugmire Way

We had such a great 4th of July! All of my kids were excited and were awake by 6:30 am! I think they were just as excited for this holiday as they were for Christmas!

Here are the girls in their festive dresses waiting for the parade to start in Idaho Falls. (yes, I made the dresses. The girls wanted to have some fun, patriotic dresses to wear so we went and bought the material the Thursday before the 4th and I made them very quickly on the 3rd! )
This is a funny picture to me because I remember my mom dressing my sisters and me up in matching outfits ALL the time. I swore I would never do that to my kids! We got lots of compliments during the day on how cute they were though!

After the parade was over, we headed over to Justin's office and helped him put some bookshelves together for his office and the kids rode their bikes around the parking lot while they waited for lunch to cook. We grilled up hotdogs and had watermelon, pineapple and chips! It was delicious! I just loved spending the day with the family.

Mayci wanted me to take a picture of her doing everything that day. She kept switching from her scooter to her bike the entire time we were at Justin's office. Silly girl!

My handsome guy and me just chillin' while the kids play after lunch.

Cooper was such a trooper all day long. He spent most of the day in his carseat but did so good. He only fussed when he was hungry.

After lunch, we took the kids to go watch the movie '17 Miracles'. We loved it! It was similar to the stake play that the kids were in. The kids enjoyed seeing the characters that they played and also characters of our neighbors. It was nice and air conditioned in the theater which helped cool us off before our bike ride.

We had worked on everyones bikes on Saturday (July 2nd) so we could take them into Idaho Falls and ride around town that afternoon. We were quite the site riding around. We put Mayci and Cooper (in his carseat) in the bike trailer and everyone else rode bikes. When we rode single file we had quite the train going. In fact, a few times while riding through crowds, people would stop and wait for us to go by and if Kenzie and I weren't right with the rest of the group it would take people off guard. They would laugh and say, "Oh, there's more!" as they got out of the way for us!

We stopped to rest in front of the falls long enough to get a picture or two.

We made our way over to Arctic Circle for dinner. The kids were glad to rest for a bit and cool off! As you can see, Madison's face is pretty red! It was a very warm day!

All of our handsome boys!

The beautiful girls!

After dinner we dropped the bikes off at Justin's office and drove over to find us a place to sit for the fireworks. We decided to try sitting just west of the temple this year, on the road. We sat just north of the highway last year and we decided that was a much better place. Not as many people and pretty much right under the fireworks. Now we know!

We brought some games for the kids to play while we waited and we also walked around to see all the vendors that were there. Of course, we had to go buy our favorite, Kettle Korn!!! Ok, it's really mom's favorite but I did share!

This was our view while we waited for the fireworks.

All of the kids stayed awake for the fireworks until about 1/2 way through them. Mayci just got too tired. I couldn't believe she lasted that long. She played hard all day and didn't slow down until the fireworks actually started. Idaho Falls puts on an amazing show every year. The fireworks started just after 10 pm and lasted for about 25 minutes. What's amazing is that you don't ever know when the grand finale is because the entire time it's like it's the grand finale! Lots of fireworks!!! We will probably make this a tradition each year! Nothing beats playing hard with your family and creating memories!