4th of July, Midwest style!

So yesterday was 4th of July and our day started off by my cousin Kaitlyn flying in from California to stay with us for 8 days. Since she came in so early, 5:50am we all took naps... 4.5 hours to be exact ha! Then we all got ready to head down to base for their festival. Well this week there is a heat wave in Chicago and they weren't kidding it was 106 out and then add humidity. So we walked around and ate and made it for one hour but then we all thought we were melting/dying so decided to go home and find fireworks somewhere else. We were at home for about two hours, which was just enough time to fit in a watching of toy story (for Jace of course) and then we drove to Libertyville to watch their concert and see some fireworks. Well the Midwest doesn't joke around, the fireworks were pretty grand. And surprisingly jace enjoyed them. After the first one he kept signing more. Then a few more went off and he would look startled and I explained they were going to make a boom but be pretty. And then after every one he would say ohhhhh, ahhhh, boom! He really enjoyed them. And we had a great time. We survived the Midwest heat and our second holiday away from home!