4th of July

We spend our holiday at Big Cedar in a two bedroom cabin with Mema, Poppy and Kylie.  We played hookie from work on Wednesday and started our super long weekend at SDC.  The weather was prefect and we actually stayed at the park until about 4:00, this is the longest the kids have ever been able to make it.  I'm sure I've mentioned this before but Amelia is now tall enough to ride the majority of the rides, so on this particular trip she tried out The American Pledge with daddy!  You can't see her very well in the pictures because she was right up against Nathan, but she says she liked it and will ride again!

 

Thursday morning we hit one of the many pools at the resort and played until about noon when we headed back to the cabin for lunch and afternoon naps. There was a big picnic type thing at the resort that afternoon with games, food and crafts with a fireworks show afterwards.  Neither of our kids have seen fireworks before, they go to bed WAY before dark and keeping them up is a bad idea.  However, we were on vacation and heard that the fireworks where great.  So after fairly decent afternoon naps we headed over to check the picnic out and scoop out a place to put out lawn chairs and blankets for the show. Amelia and Asher rode a few rides, played at the playground, jumped in a bouncy house and made sand art necklaces until early evening when we returned to our spot to wait for the show.  And what a show it was, the fireworks were amazing!  Amelia was scared of the noise at first and had a minor melt down.  Asher LOVED it and was smiling and laughing and clapping his hands.  Amelia ended up liking it too. Both kids were up until nearly 10:30, which is 3 1/2 hours and 2 1/2 hours past their bedtimes, but the did awesome!  It was a great 4th of July!