4th of July - 2014 Style

This year was the first time in about a decade that Fountain Hills put on its own fireworks display.  We decided to spend the afternoon at the Belt's house so the kids could play and swim, and since they live closer to the Fountain than we do, watch the fireworks from their house.

The kids had a blast playing all day together.  Alli, Gage, and Reegan were in the pool until we made them get out (at almost 9pm) to change so we could watch the fireworks.  What Marcie didn't tell me was that the plan was to sit on their roof to watch!!  They have a small, flat roof at the front of their house, and so they popped out the screen of one of the front windows from an upstairs bedroom and we all climbed through to watch.  All adults made sure kids got out there and sat down immediately - there wasn't much of a barrier at the edge, and we didn't want anyone to accidentally fall over!

All the bigger girls watched the fireworks through their phones, videotaping it.  We thought that was strange - it was LIVE!  Watch it live we kept saying!  Whatever.  And then the little ones kept saying "that's it?"  It was past their bedtime, and they were tired, and I guess the repetitive fireworks exploding just wasn't exciting enough for them.  :)

Natalie slept through that part of the visit, but I'm pretty sure she had fun with all the kids and swimming before that!

Here's Alli, all decked out and showing off her 4th of July spirit.