We went to the Ward's pancake breakfast and I was asked to do the photography for the 5k event. Kari Ginn runs in marathons and was the easy winner (followed shortly afterwards by her father). It's always a fun way to celebrate--especially with the kids patriotic bike parade afterwards.
That evening we went over to help with the Parker Let Freedom Sing running the kids games. It was a good feeling to help the kids and see how cute they were trying to win prizes. We bought some homemade rootbeer and popcorn, yummy. There was a brass band that did Sousa marches before the fireworks. It was Katherine's first time to see fireworks up close and spectacular. The parking was a fiasco & it took us almost an hour to get out of the parking lot, but otherwise it was a fun evening.