We celebrated the 4th of July with Amber, Chris, Isaac, and Abigail; their friends Randy and Sarah and daughter Summer; and Andy, whose wife Evette and son Kian were down in California. Isaac, Abigail, and Summer really enjoyed playing in the pool because it was in the low 90's. Randy, Chris, and I enjoyed some really great beer, and for the non-beer drinkers there was iced tea, Pepsi's and of course, water. Because of the tall trees on the west side of our property, the yard started getting shaded by 4:30 or so, which really made it very comfortable, even though it was still pretty warm. For snacks we had deviled eggs, a veggie platter, chips, and some sinfully delicious monster strawberries dipped in white chocolate that Sarah brought. For dinner, we had BBQed hamburgers and hot dogs, with potato salad and fruit salad. No one went home hungry or thirsty.
Because Randy, Sarah, Summer and Andy had to leave around 6 PM, we did some fireworks in the back yard around 5:30 for Summer. Then, around 7:30 or so, we went out to the front yard for fireworks for Isaac and Abigail. Fortunately, we still had a ton of smoke bombs and spinners left from what we set off in the back yard, cause the big container of 45 cones I had for the front yard turned out to all be Party Poppers and not fireworks. But, we had fun making smoke in the street and noise in the yard with the poppers. Christopher was the designated "lighter" and did a great job of not letting stuff go under my car or into neighbor's yards when he threw the spinners into the street. We were safe and sane, with only one tiny incident when a piece of cardboard from one of the poppers went sideways and hit Isaac on the side of the face. After that, he said he doesn't like poppers at all and only likes fireworks in the street. Behind us and somewhere off to the west of us there were monster loud booms and explosions way into the night till about midnight. I know most of them had to be the illegal type, but we never heard any sirens, so guess no one got hurt.
We had a good time and look forward to July 4th, 2010 - same time, same place.
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We had such a great time; you guys always make our time together so special. Today, all Isaac wanted to go was go back to your house and play...he'd love it if we lived across the street. :)
We are so thankful for you!!!! We could say it every day and it would still not express it enough.
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