Independence Day!

We had a really nice July 4th this year. Central City had a lot of cool family things to do.
We went to the Teddy Bear Parade in the morning. This is a kid's parade where kids line up with their teddy bears and march around the block. It was really cute and at the end all the kids got ice cream and balloons. When we got there all the kids got cowboy hats too. Jackson wore his all day. Brady won a giant bear in the raffle. 

Ike and Jackson walking in the Teddy Bear parade!

 Me holding Brady because he refused to walk.

 Jackson and THE TEDDY BEAR!

 Enjoying some ice creams compliments of Dairy Queen!

 Brady won a bear that was bigger than him.

Next we moved on to the petting zoo at the park. By this point Brady was not really into the whole "having to walk around town" and eventually he pooped his pants and Ike took him  home.
Jackson enjoyed some quality time with some goats.

 He was really fascinated by the turtles even though they were neither teenage nor mutant jinjas.

 He was very brave and decided he wanted to ride the horse! He went all the way down this little path and back with them. I was really actually surprised he wasn't scared.

After the petting zoo we went home and had lunch then the boys took a nap and we killed time until the parade.

After the parade we threw about a thousand off our front steps. Brady (who was in a better mood by this point) was really into them. Then we let our kids stay up until 10pm so they could watch all the fireworks and I have to say, for a small town there were some awesome ones. Overall it was a great 4th of July.