Fireworks and Following the Yellow Brick Road

It may be a tad early for 4th of July fireworks, but a lot of people in town were setting them off in honor of the quasquicentennial, so Daddy got a few for us to enjoy too (Mommy & Amy were a bit nervous because they've never lived somewhere where you're still allowed to even have fireworks....so they stayed up on the deck while Daddy lit them). Mommy should have taken a picture of Harrison's face with this one. If you want to make a little boy upset, take a firecracker that looks like a truck and blow it up! They thought I'd like this one, but I was just really mad that the truck had been set on fire!

As exhausted as we were after all the town's festivities yesterday, we decided to head up to Aberdeen to visit a park called Storybook Land. It's a huge park where there are lifesize reproductions of all the kids stories like The Wizard of Oz, Captain Hook, the Old Lady who lived in a shoe, etc. We followed the yellow brick road through the park and saw a lot of fun neat stories, slides, animals, swings, a carousel, and this balloon ride that takes you up in the air in a spinning tea cup type basket -- Mom, Dad & Amy weren't exactly thrilled with that ride, but us kids thought it was pretty fun!

This was me afraid to drink out of the lion water fountain!

Daddy and me inside Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater (who had a wife and couldn't keep her)'s pumpkin...

Daddy and me sliding down the hickory dickory dock clock...

Abbey sliding down the slide on Captain Hook's ship. She went down the slide by herself for the first time (Mommy was at the bottom to catch her). Corey tried to catch her once but Abbey got scared of him and managed to stop herself mid-slide and try to climb back up to her mom! It was pretty funny!

Abbey loves to swing and was so excited when she saw these. Harrison was not impressed with the oversized gorilla that was holding up the swings so he didn't last long in there!

The Yellow Brick Road...

We had a really fun day and even got to end it with a trip to Target and dinner at McDonalds before heading home. Today Mommy and Aunt Amy are planning on taking us out to the river to go out on my cousin Mikenna's boat!