July 4th in Malad

We are going to backtrack a little bit, because I am a bad Mom and forgot to take my camera with me to the Parade. So my on the ball sister just sent me over the pictures she took, We spent the 4th of July in Malad. The kids had a lot of fun at the parade and the carnival. The 4th starts early in Malad. We watched the parade for about an hour and the kids got tons of candy. After that the kids have a race at the park. They are put into different groups based on age and sex then have to run a short distance. They love it because they get ice cream when the complete the race.

For the adults; the Malad Cheerleaders put on a dodge ball tournament. Because we have a niece who is a cheerleader we are usually roped into doing it each year. This year there was a Willie team that consisted of Kirk, Tom, Ben, Mike, and one of Kirk's friends. Their first opponent were women so they had to take it a little easy. They won pretty easily and had to play another group after that which they lost to. It was alot of fun watching them. Later that night we go to the fireworks.
That gets over around 10:30 and then we head to my Grandma and Grandpa Parry's house and put off a firework show of our own. We are usually at Grandma and Grandpa's house until midnight. Its a full day of fun in Malad.