4th of july

fourth of july. how can i explain it without sounding like a 10 year old whiny kid? ok, i cant. it was really, really boring. {this is mike's favorite holiday. last year he drank from around 9am till about midnight. this year he got a late start- 11:30ish but he still managed to be obnoxious + very loud.} so of course mike wanted to be in laporte by 9am their time. {laporte even though they are in indiana, are an hour behind us} ugg! let me just leave it that it was really boring. i would rather have stayed home and cleaned out the attic and gotten stuff ready for a garage sale.

cousin jessica, her dad- uncle dave and shari did stop by so that helped break up my day. cousin jessica brought her little guy with her. he's 10 days old in the pic. that's gizmo, the dog, belongs to mike's folks. later in the evening we headed over to the dingmans for the annual fireworks. the girls had a great time doing the sparklers though i really didn't want kaylee to do them. {just read on pioneer woman that pesky tim got 2nd degree burns because one blew up in his hand- yep a sparkler did that} mike dumped that big firecracker into the fire pit. you were suppose to take it all apart and do them separately. i think there were 400 firecrackers in there. all that it did was smother the fire and make lots of popping sounds. we had to stay away from the fire pit the rest of the night because some would go off at any given moment. the fireworks were actually pretty good. i need to get my firework photo taking skills up to speed. i didn't get a chance to read "how to" on pioneer womans website till the day after but i'm ready next time around. the girls watched the fireworks for maybe the first 5-10 minutes. kaylee said they were boring. so her and lilly ran around and played tag. next year i'm doing something else. maybe go later in the afternoon or something.