Gordons Kisser

Look at that pucker

How can I resist?!

I want to eat him.

4th Of July

August is not too late to post about the 4th of July right?

We partied hard this year! The kids decorated shirts.

We went to the Celebration of Freedom In Down Town Mesa.

For 2 nights the kids had so much to do!

We took the kids out to dinner to a little pizza place on Main.

The kids played on the blowup water slides

They got to play carnival games face paint

And check out Patriotic exhibits.

Down Town Mesa did a great job! the Church Members did a great job volunteering! and it was all free!! On Saturday they did fireworks. Living in San Diego seeing a fireworks show dozens of times from the closest possible spot, I thought I would never be impressed with another firework show BUT, I was wrong! Mesa did a scary good job...a little too scary. There was fireworks falling down right where we were! I think the unexpected wind and heat kept the embers burring too long. After the show the kids picked up some of the pieces.

Monday was the actual 4th of July. We went to Bass Pro ( the big sports, hunting & outdoor recreation store) It may kind of hill billy to go there and plan on not spending any money but we love it. We just to window shop, tour the boats and 4 wheeler, look at fishing equipment, shoot the toy guns at the interactive targets and feed the fish at the big indoor tank. It felt very American, it was free, and the kids love it!

Then we went to the dollar movie theater. We saw a cute kids movie called Rio, about a bird going to Rio, Brazil. Whats more American them Brazil? Then Mommy and Daddy

took us to Peter Pipper pizza for Dinner,and we were off to another Fireworks show. We got good seats to see the down town Tempe show.

The Jones Family, Wengers and Figgins all met up with us.

Tempe had the longest show ever probably 2 hours! we enjoyed Chocolate covered pretzels and soda during the show.

Happy 4th of July!