Rainy 4th of July

So what do you do on a rainy 4th of July? Not much. The day started at our ward breakfast that Eddie and I some how ended up in charge of. It turned out good once it got started. We set up outside and as soon as we were done the rain started so we quickly took everything down and moved it inside. We had to be creative because we could not set up enough tables inside for everyone.

We had a great pie eating contest. The kids favorite part of the morning is the decorated bike parade and water balloons. They were all very sad it was raining so we all braved the drizzle and went out to watch the parade and get wet..or should we say wetter..with water balloons.

We then came home and Eddie taught Derek how to grill Hot dogs. They had to pull the grill right up to the back door so they would not get too wet. After lunch Amanda, Josh and I all patiently waited for everyone to take a nice long nap. I than had a Rummy Cube championship with Amanda while the others raced cars.

We BBQ ed steaks for dinner, once again pulling the grill very close to the back door.

Finally, at 8 PM the rain stopped and we all loaded in the car to see fireworks. Of course just as the fireworks were starting Josh went into a fit because he had to go to the bathroom sooo bad. Eddie finally sent him hiking to McDonald's to use the bathroom. he almost ruined the whole night. The fireworks were beautiful and thus ended a rainy July 4th.