Wednesday, July 8, 2009

4th of July

We went to Manti for the 4th of July weekend. The Max and Maddie had a lot of fun with their cousins Gracie, Susie and Rosie. They played in the water for hours on Friday afternoon.






On Friday night we went to the parade on Main Street in Manti. The kids were so excited to get candy! This is a picture I took of them waiting for the parade to start. I played around with it on photoshop because I thought it was a cute picture of them together.



Saturday Bret and James were playing with firecrackers. Max thought it was so funny. They were trying to blowup pop cans, potatoes, cherries, anything they could find. We also picked cherries from my Mom's tree and she made cherry cobbler, yum, yum!

Later that night they had tank wars, they used other fireworks to rig their tanks up to see whos would go the farthest.

The Tanks

The Teams:

Andy and Susie

James and Sharee

Bret

Andy and Susie's went the furthest. James' and Bret's had too much fire power and burned through the string before they went anywhere.



This is a little video of Bret's tank.



After the competition we went to watch the firework show. Manti has a great show for a small town. It was a fun weekend.


3 comments:

Jokilyn said...

Looks like you had tons of fun!! Brings back memories of when Bret taught me how to make flower bombs using pennies and duct tape. We'd sit on the driveway for hours and make them and then put them down the sewer drain in the middle of the circle. Ah, the good old days. :) The things you can only learn from a big brother!!

Christina W. Cook said...

Glad you guys had a good time. Ben's sorry to have missed the annual tank building contest!

Rachel said...

Looks like a lot of fun! That picture you changed in photoshop is really cute!