{"id":5192,"date":"2014-07-04T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2014-07-04T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:47:41","slug":"fireworks-and-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/fireworks-and-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks and Family Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up, I loved watching the fireworks on Fourth of July.\u00a0 My aunt and uncle live in the foothills overlooking Denver and we used to go up to their house and watch the fireworks over Denver and all across the Front Range.\u00a0 It was magical to be above or eyelevel with the fireworks at times but we also got to lay out on their front lawn and look up at the display put on by the amusement park that is next door to their house.\u00a0 It was always a time for family togetherness and a time I cherished and looked forward to each year.<\/p>\n

\"DSC01557\"Now with my own children, I am always excited to share the magic of fireworks with them. \u00a0While Honeybun didn\u2019t get to enjoy fireworks her first year (she, after all, was less than a day old and we were still stuck in the hospital) she did get to experience it all just after her first birthday.\u00a0 We watched the displays over the beach from my Nana\u2019s house (now my aunt and uncle\u2019s house) and also introduced her to some of the more tame at-home fireworks.<\/p>\n

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It would be another three years, though, before she would get to experience Fourth of July fireworks again.\u00a0 And poor little Sugarplum was nearly two before she got to experience it, shortly after we moved back to Florida.<\/p>\n

We spent the past two years watching fireworks at my parents\u2019 house, straining to see the them over the trees but enjoying the displays nonetheless and last year we introduced the girls to sparklers which they weren’t too sure about.<\/p>\n

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This year we\u2019ve been struggling with deciding what to do and where to go.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t much for crowds (especially the parking part) but haven\u2019t been at our house for Fourth of July before.<\/p>\n

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Then last night, something magical happened.\u00a0 The Seminole Casino just down the road from us did a large display and we got to see it all!\u00a0 And we didn\u2019t even have to leave our back porch.<\/p>\n

Doodle was mesmerized by his first real display (last year he was so little and nursed through most of it!) and we even got the girls up out of bed to watch.\u00a0 Fireworks still make me excited and giddy inside.\u00a0 They still feel magical and I love seeing the magic in my children\u2019s eyes as we create our own family memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up, I loved watching the fireworks on Fourth of July.\u00a0 My aunt and uncle live in the foothills overlooking Denver and we used to go up to their house and watch the fireworks over Denver and all across the Front Range.\u00a0 It was magical to be above or eyelevel with the fireworks at times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-ties","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}