After seeing the firefighters coming home from shift change Sunday evening, greeted by crowds of people cheering for them, the girl cousins decided that they wanted to make lots of cookies to take to give to the firefighters some evening. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to manage letting them do this and getting them in to town, but we mothers let them bake.
The girls spent hours baking. They made peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal/coconut/raisin, and chocolate with white chip cookies.
Here they are bagging two or three cookies into little baggies.
The girls put together pages of cardstock paper with Bible verses or a verse of hymn printed on them. Timmy helped cut the Bible verses into strips.
Here is an example of one bag, with "O God Our Help in Ages Past" printed on the card. A red, white and blue bow gives a finishing touch.
The children filled a box with these goodies. It was decided that we would join the crowd waiting for the firemen on the evening of July 4th on our way home from taking Elon's family to Royal Gorge.
Now the boys are in on the project. "Cookies for Firefighters" is what this big poster says.
The girls put finishing touches on.
If only you could have seen the thousand or many more people lining both sides of the streets along a few blocks and corners where the firefighters were coming back to their tent camp up the street. Here our two families have joined others. Elon and Anita are holding the big flag. The children are getting ready to hand cookies into the fire truck window.
You can see some of the crowd further down the street. The largest crowds were at the corners down there, waving posters and flags, screaming and cheering. With no fireworks allowed at all, this was a way to vent pent up energy on July 4th!
Getting those cookies to the firemen! One fire truck drove through spraying water everywhere!
Some of the crowds again.
In the median of the road were some of our relatives and other people.
The children are giving cookies to the firemen.
The crowd cheering. In the center, you can barely see Crystal holding up our "Cookies for Firefighters" sign.
Dusk is settling as more and more trucks go by. Iva's family joined us by now.
Grandma found a child's cute poster on the ground and held it up.
Danny and Hannah and Sarah watching from the sidelines.
You wouldn't know what holiday it was, would you?
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