We started off with some garden time because it was necessary for watering and stuff of the younger plants. After a slow-paced morning, we took Alex and some ads to the fireworks booths around the corner. TNT has been the main booth around here for forever and most of their fireworks have been less than awe-inspiring for forever (in my opinion). But this year there was a competitor -- Phantom. Since TNT is the lamest and we got an ad for Phantom to get a $25 fountain if we spend $70 there wasn't a competition.
By the time we got to the booth the $25 fountains were gone so we just got the money to get whatever we wanted. Which was really cool even though we were stoked on what the other fountain could do. Early bird specials have never been our strong point, but there's always something else you can get if you ask.
We had two barbecues starting at the same time; in the end, we chose to spend the day with my family and the night with his. We made biscuits and brought cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden to share with my family. As usual, there were four choices of meat and two choices of vegetables. And bacon rice, which is practically a meat, so five choices.
We played in the pool with Jaydyn and Bronson; Alex came over after the other barbecue had finished because he needed food he'll actually eat and more swimming. We left when the sun was starting to set so we could get back and clean up before the night party.
We had a ton of fountains and loved them all. Even the two-second ones. We shared our night with the Wolde's next door who are in town for the Summer before they move closer to USC. They have four children who are so adorable. They are all so nice to each other (at least when I'm looking) and they were also terrified of fireworks.
This is a super lame picture of the Jupiter/Venus super star after they separated (obvi). I bumped the camera when it was taking and then fireworks were happening so I didn't get another chance. Anyway, rainbow planets! Yay?
Glen has had fireworks stowed in his/our closet for like eight years or something! The planets aligned this year and we actually shot off most of them. He went with Bruce and Jeff to Nevada one weekend just to buy fireworks and got so many that his young heart couldn't get rid of them fast enough.
This is from a mortar rocketing up into the sky. Our neighbors the next cul-de-sac over were insane though! So many mortars, so many cakes, so many fireworks that they were lighting them off before we started and far after we had cleaned up our street.
We brought out the sparklers and everyone was excited about that -- even the kids! Here's Ana and Alex... he didn't really get the whole move it around and have fun part of sparklers. Oh well.
The square is Christine and this is when we brought out Glen's old sparklers that actually last longer than 5 seconds and spark.
We usually go and watch the fireworks from the church parking lot, but we had so many fireworks of our own that it lasted for three hours! It was awesome. And the neighbors show was visible from our room, so we hunkered down in there and waited the last boom out.
Until next year, happy Independence Day!
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