Fun on the 4th

We have had lots of fun celebrating the 4th! We started Thursday night at a friend's house for food and fireworks. They live on a golf course very close to the launching point so we had front row seats on their deck. Isaac thought the fireworks were fancy, loud and cool. He also threw in a "Woo-hoo" in between some of the bigger booms. Levi slept through the entire show! We were all amazed that he only flinched at a few of them.

Friday we went to the parade and met up with our friend Rowen. We've been missing her so it was very fun to see her again. Both kids gathered an impressive amount of candy. Levi was awake at the parade but desperately wanted to be sleeping. He'd just drift off to sleep and then another horn would blow. After the parade we headed home for lunch and naps. Then we went to our cousins' house for the annual cook-out and game of kickball.

We were also part of the tens of thousands of folks in the area without power. It went out during a storm Wednesday around 3pm and finally came back on Friday around 2pm. Thankfully, the temps were beautiful so the house stayed nice and cool. We loaded up the cooler with ice and managed to save a majority of our food. But my goodness how we take electricity for granted! Preparing our meals became more challenging and so did getting the Jeep out of the garage. The garage is not attached to the house and there is no service door so Martin had to climb in a window to open the garage door from the inside. Our cordless phones no longer worked and neither did the answering machine (sorry if you tried to call us!). The estimated restoration time was 11pm Saturday so we were very excited yesterday when it came back on. Thank you Consumers Energy for working on the Holiday!