It's On!

Our annual 4th of July party always starts with a water fight...  

 Somehow we ended up on "teams"... Here a few of us are advancing toward the enemy...

 And here we are being repelled by the enemy!

 All the wet folk.  (Thank goodness for other adults that are willing to have fun!)

 In past years we've done a silly string fight.  This year we tried something new...

A SHAVING CREAM fight.  It was spectacular!  It's cheaper than silly string and the fight lasted way longer.  Absolutely part of the tradition from now on!

It started a little small - not all the kids were sure about it...

It only took a few minutes to get all of them involved...

 And not too much longer than that to get most of the bystanders at least a little shaving creamy...

 After the fight, we had a little beauty salon...

The tricky part was getting everyone clean again...  It's a really cold shower in the hose...  But not one child (or adult) cried...  We also filled water balloons with shaving cream.  Awesome.  Such a fun time!  I'm probably going to do another one later in the summer...