4th of July Fun

For the fourth of July we did a lot of fun things. We went for a hike in the morning.

In the van getting ready to go for our hike. They were super excited but had no idea where we were going.
Stretching... we learned a lot on this hike. Health, Science, History (about the 4th), Bible (a lesson on arguing), P.E. and whatever else we learned about.

One of the beautiful views.

Samara's reaction to the beautiful view.

Nattie the rock climber.

Running down after getting to the top. The hike was about 2 miles and the kids didn't complain until the last little bit.

Bible and History lesson, oh, and art. They drew a picture of the things they saw during our hike. Then they wrote sentences explaining what they saw.

A nice man stopped and asked if we all wanted to be in a picture!!! YEAH!!! We have another picture with all of us! This is at the end of the hike so we are all hot and tired.

Syssa stopped to tie her shoe and Nattie just sat in the middle of the path waiting.

This is my beautiful flag cake. This is the artist that I am... Not really talented in that area but the cake tasted awesome!

Then we made red, white, and blue necklaces and bracelets. They loved them.

I also made these hats for them. They seem to have so much more fun when they have these hats on. This is them being goof balls.

Then, thanks to 2TeachingMommies (website on the right side) I printed out and laminated these fun stations. Put a clothes pin on the correct number.

Match uppercase and lowercase letters, and many more. Alyssa has a fun time doing this type of stuff too. She especially liked one that was a roll the dice and graph type game.

Red, white, and blue drink. Ice, Apple Cranberry Juice, and blue Gatorade. Yummy!

Drinking it.

Rocket dogs. I got this idea off of FamilyFun.com oh and the drink idea off there.

Getting ready to watch a movie with our dinner. The girls got to eat in the living room... a rare treat.

Half eaten piece of cake.

They had a lot of fun this 4th of July even though we didn't get to see fireworks because of the fire ban. They kept singing Happy Birthday to America, or as Alyssa kept saying U.S.A.