Fun on the Fourth :)

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."

~Erma Bombeck

I love this quote and how true it is. Although my family did not throw frisbees (which is great for me cause the whole concept of catching and throwing frisbees goes way over my head and directly to my lack of hand-eye coordination), but we did have a bunch of potato salad and much happiness. A few families from the ward were also there because they know that fun is with us Wallace's : )

Here's some of the fun activities that we did...

WE HAD WATER BALLOON LAUNCHING!

Matthew, Sam, and Tucker were our water balloon launchers.

Bro. Tucker, my dad, Megan, and Lydia getting ready for the launched. (As you can see my Dad was really into catching the balloons.)

Lydia posing, and Ilah trying to squeeze some water out of her hair.



I figured that if I stood in one place with my arms out, then a water balloon would magically end up in my arms.... my plan didn't work out to well, instead my dad would randomly come up behind me and try to push me into the flying water balloons, but I never got hit by one :)
Also notice Bro. Tucker behind me admiring my phenomenal technique lol



WE HAD SLIP AND SLIDING!!!

Notice the technique.

Ilah having fun on the slip and slide.

Henry making a big splash, like always :)


That expression says it all lol


Henry trying to stop Ilah from sliding in first.

WE HAD ICE CREAM DROPPING!!!!

What you do is have everyone get a partner. Have one partner get on the ground with an ice cream cone in their mouth and try to catch the ice cream their partner scoops and drops over them. It was very entertaining to watch :)

Ilah not wanting to see what happens next...

Sam catching the ice cream! He was the champion ice cream catcher of the night.

Henry getting ready for the drop!


Michael going for a second scoop or catching the first one... either way :)

David enjoying some fudge swirl ice cream!


AND WE HAD FIREWORKS!
Sorry, we don't have pictures of this, but they were awesome! We started off the night with Henry and his friend Michael melting an army man in half with a sparkler bomb they created. Sadly, we didn't question this act... Next we went to the park and lit some more fireworks and watched other's fireworks around us until the show began. (It actually started raining at this time, but cleared up in a few minutes, so the show still occured.) The rest of the night consisted of us talking about which fireworks we liked best, me and Matthew admiring how big some of the fireworks were, lighting the rest of our fireworks, Tucker and Matthew having a sparkler war(they tried throwing the sparks from the sparklers at eachother... again we did not question this act), and eating more delicious food.

It was an awesome fourth of July!