Happy Independence Day!

It has been a fun few days.  Yesterday morning our swamp cooler stopped working.  It would still blow air but it wasn't coming out cold (like the water wasn't running through it).  So I told Tony and he said he'd look at when he came home from work.
After lunch Margie texted and asked if we wanted to go to the Sweet's factory to see what treats they had.  I said "Heck yes!" and got the kids ready to go.

We welcomed the outing and getting out of our hot house.  It is always fun to go the candy store.  Margie was leaving for her trip with Suzanne's family in a couple days and wanted to see what they had that she could take with her.
We let the kids pick out a couple little treats and then we checked out.  We enjoyed free samples and the cool building.  They do have tours but you have to sign up in advance.  We talked about setting one up for another time.  That will be fun.

Margie brought us back home.  Tony got off work and checked on the swamp cooler.  Luckily the filter had moved and blocked the water from getting through, so it was an easy fix.  I was very thankful for that.
Margie had a broken sprinkler in her back yard that she wanted Tony to fix, so we headed to her house after eating some dinner.

Tony saw the problem and Margie needed a new part.  So Margie, Tony, and Allie went to the store while the rest of us stayed and hung out at Margie's.
After they fixed the sprinkler part Margie took us all out for Italian Shaved Ice.  It was the perfect treat for such a hot night.  Many other's thought so too and it was pretty busy there.  We all enjoyed our treat and then we went back to Margie's to get our car.

We then went over to my parents house to watch them set off some fireworks.  Since Kevin and Julie's families wouldn't be around for fireworks of the 4th they decided to set theirs off the night before.

Allie (who had not had a nap that day) didn't like the fireworks.  Her and Tony went inside and she watched them from the window.  The three older kid loved them, especially Megan.  Tyler was kind of scared of some of the loud ones and would run towards the house.  I thought that was odd because he has never done that before.
But even with the really big and loud ones Megan stayed seated watched them intently.  She is my brave girl.
We let Tyler and Josh spend the night with Hayden at my parents.  They slept outside on the trampoline and stayed out there all night long.
The rest of us went home and got some sleep before coming back to get the boys the next morning for the Murray parade.
We loved the parade and the kids got lots of candy.  Allie was adorable waving to people and saying "Over here" in her cute little voice.  She loved the city royalties and called them all Elsa and Anna.  Adorable.
After the parade we went back to my parents for a BBQ.  The kids all played together while we got all the food ready.  It was all very good and the kids loved playing together.  After we ate and cleaned up we went home.  We tried to get Allie to take a nap, but she wouldn't have it.  Tony and Megan went to a fireworks stand to get us some fireworks for tonight.