Fourth of July

I'm way behind, but have lots of pics from the Fourth to share! It was kind of an interesting weekend- not knowing whether it was going to rain or not every night!

On the Fourth we went to my mom's for dinner/fireworks. Pat and I were trying to recall if had ever rained on the fourth of July before in our lifetime! The skies looked a little dreary but we knew we would at least eat some good food. We had an awesome dinner and the sky looked good so my sister and I headed into Andover to buy a ton of fireworks!

We started off by taking family pictures. We do it every year and every year they go on our Christmas card so I beg for some decent ones:

Outside:


And it wouldn't be family picture time without one of Big Boy crossing his eyes. Stinker!



Sis and Great Gma:

The kids doing snakes (or something else hopefully not dangerous since Big Boy has his head over it) with Aunt Ashlee.




Doing our parachute races, a favorite every year...


How patriotic is this??? Sissy was putting on a big show for us.





Big Boy with Gma and Gracie:

We were in Andover all night and the weather was fine. However, when we got home we could tell it had clearly been raining in Bel Aire most the evening. Unfortunately for us, even though it was almost 11, the rain was just letting up and so everyone went outside to shoot them off. Our neighbors about drove me crazy but I felt bad for them so we let it go. ;)

The night before we spent the evening at Gma and Gpa McLain's for some good food and fireworks as well. We were not as lucky as far as the weather went, it was lightly raining for most of the night. However, we still got to sit in the garage and the men still ran out in the rain and put on a show for us so we really enjoyed it! The kids got to play and see their cousin.

T thinking he can light his own firework. MAYBE WHEN HE IS 18! Can you imagine that child with firecrackers?





Gpa helping T with his sparkler. The night before when he had them he tried to light his shorts on fire- so we watched him carefully!




We had a great Fourth of July weekend with 3 days of food and fireworks so overall it was very successful!