July 4th

This year was a little different. Last Wednesday didn't really feel like July 4th to us. Every year since we moved to KS we have worked the Freedom Run on July 4th. This year the race was moved to Saturday to coincide with Sterling's Old Fashioned 4th of July (which they moved to the weekend to coincide with Sterling College's 120th Anniversary Celebration...which was cancelled due to lack of participation). There was still some stuff going on at the Sterling Lake on Wednesday the 4th. We went out there in the morning for the Hole-in-One contest. They goal was to hit a golf ball onto the island in the lake and the closest to the pin would win. There were a lot of guys waiting in line...so we just watched rather than participate. Brody obsessively watched the golf balls and said "ba ba ba" over and over! I finally took him for a walk around the park to keep him from crawling over and grabbing the golf balls from the golfers!

Here's Brody at the park slide. Ever since he saw Malachi climbing up the slide at the Little's house, he LOVES slides! This one was a little bit bigger than Malachi's.
I decided to keep walking around the lake to where the vendors where. Brody got really wiggly...so I put him down and thought maybe he'd crawl beside me in the grass. As soon as I put him down he turned around and started crawling at super sonic speed back towards the playground!

Mike walked with us over to the vendors and we went in search of a toy ball (Brody was still obsessively saying "ba" translated "ball"). We finally found a cool little ball for him to play with. The icing on the cake was when Mike found a water hose that had a pinhole in it and was shooting a stream of water up in the air! He and Brody stood in the water for a while cooling off. (It's kinda hard to see in this picture...but the water is spraying them.)

It rained on July 4th...so the fireworks were postponed until Saturday night. That was great for us! We worked the race in the morning, worked on the house all day, and then got to see the fireworks at night! It was over 2 hours past Brody's bedtime...so he was a major wiggle wart! He would watch them for a few seconds and then start down the hill towards the lake! In this picture he's standing on Michelle (leaning on Jed) and watching the fireworks.

Fireworks over the lake.