Theme Days: Independence Day.

You know how you hear about people having Christmas in July? Well Greg and I decided to reverse that for our theme day. We had 4th of July in December! I think we came up with that so we could do fireworks. But then we found out fireworks are illegal in ND even for New Years. And we were going to do a picnic lunch but 10 degree weather doesn't warrant any outside leisurely activities.

So instead we had some other fun inside activities like a all-around-the-house scavenger hunt, a tossing game, and the most hilarious parade ever. Plus we had a picnic/4th of July type meal complete with a flag cake and we made the kids wear red/blue aprons. Indeed we were quite festive. I'm pretty sure we even sang Happy Birthday to America. I am quite certain we were the only family in America that did that on New Years Eve.

Scavenger Hunt Team One
Part of the hunt was to carry one flag high up the whole time searching...
all I had to do was say "flag" and John's hand would shoot right up.

Team Two

Uncle Greg made up some fantastic clues.

This photo just makes me laugh.

The tossing game was actually a little lame.

All the kiddos in their name aprons and medals!

The Very.Important.Swordsman that began our parade.

Such entertainment!

This captures the parade (and Marian) so well... happy, noisy, running in circles.

Yes. This happened.

Patriotic Cutie!

You can see a little of Eli's "Buffalo, North Dakota 1981" shirt.

We are blessed to live in America so I feel no shame in celebrating our country in December!

-Heather