4th of July

We had a nice, very exhausting Independence Day this year. We started the day off at a ward pancake breakfast at the park. There was lots of good food and fun games for everyone (I even got to bomb Tammy with a water balloon). Right after the breakfast we walked downtown to watch the parade. Bettendorf's 4th of July parade is pretty small - it's mostly made up of politicians and commercial business advertising their cause (including the ACLU and gay rights march). But there's plenty of candy for the kids so they were entertained - especially Ben who must have eaten 30 pieces of candy while we were watching.

After the parade we went home and had lunch. Tammy stayed home with the younger kids for nap time and Adam and I headed out geocaching with a friend of ours. By the way, this friend of ours we introduced to geocaching a couple of years ago has now found nearly 1400 caches - he's crazy about it. He took us to a remote forest wildlife preserve where there were a few caches hidden. Below is a picture I took of Adam - the picture doesn't really do the location justice - it was a very beautiful area. We found 1 of the 3 caches we hunted for.


After geocaching, we headed home in time for supper. We invited our geocaching friend and his family along with another family with young kids for a barbeque. We all went together after dark to watch the fireworks show.

All together, it was a fun day! I really just wanted to blog SOMETHING (ANYTHING!) to get that awful picture off the top of our blog!!! Hope you all had a nice holiday too!