Fun on the Fourth

The five of us had a GREAT Fourth of July weekend!

We got to see fireworks not once, not twice, but THREE nights in a row! Friday night was a spontaneous event as we pulled off the side of the road, on our way home from getting ice cream, to watch fireworks right near our house.

Saturday night we went to one of the oldest Independence Day celebrations in the country at Lititz Spring Park. Lititz is just a short drive away from us here in Lancaster County. It is one of the cutest little towns that has kept a lot of old fashioned traditions. Over 14,000 people venture out to Lititz to take part in this each year. This event is the "thing-to-do" here. We were brave and took on the crowds and the traffic to participate and it was totally worth it!

This is how the night started...

Three excited, energetic, eager kids ready to have fun. Remember this picture for later.

We listened to a great concert and Abby and Nate had the best seats in the house!
The kids had fun "hanging around" while waiting for the fireworks...

We don't have any pictures of it, but part of (a HUGE part) this event is the Lititz Spring Queen of Candles Court. This is a pageant for young ladies of the local highschool graduating class. Basically, it's like Miss America for a small town. We got to watch the pageant and the "queen" get crowned. Once the queen got her crown, she lit a candle and then a candle for the eleven girls in her court (runners up). Then those candles were used to begin the lighting of over 7,000 candles throughout the park! The candles were lined all along the stream that flows through the park and it was spectacular to see. Unfourtunately, our camera stinks and the pictures came out terrible! So take our word for it, it was beautiful! But anywho, who needs the Lititz Queen of Candles when you have these two gorgeous princesses!

And then it was time to wait for the fireworks to begin...

And what a show it was! These were by far the BEST fireworks display I have ever seen! They were amazing and we had front row seats:) Once again, our camera isn't the best, so this picture doesn't give you the full effect...but you get the idea:)

Remember the cute picture of how our night started? Well, here is how it ended...

Nathan passed out during the finale and poor Abby is forcing this smile and Emma is not in the picture because I am dragging her along beside me! It was a late night but so much fun!

And our celebration didn't stop there! Sunday night we got to see MORE fireworks. Not nearly as good as the night before, but still festive and fun. The kids also had fun with sparklers...

And no celebration is complete without a pig pile on Daddy!

Hope you had a happy 4th...we sure did!