July 4th Fun!

Hope everyone had an awesome 4th ofJuly! Ours was great! Since we had already seen professional fireworks last weekend, we opted to just stay home again, shooting them off in the street with the neighbors. Rick and Heidi came over, as well as Heidi's friend, Pam, and we had quite the spread of food and drink! We didn't go hungry, that's for sure!!!

We braved the rain sprinkles, that fell throughout the day, but when it started to downpour, we all headed inside. Sadly, our power had gone out ~ we think due to some idiots shooting off illegals, and blowing a transformer. So we all sat in the dark, well candlelight, and chatted. The kids decided to play in the rain, then lit their sparklers under the overhang.

Eventually, the rain eased up enough so that we could go ahead and shoot off our fireworks. There were people everywhere!! I sware, I love this street! :) Here are a few pictures:

Steve shows off our yummy frozen margaritas!! Which, by the way, were made with Heidi's new Magic Bullet! I want one!!!

Amanda Joy enjoys the days festivities too! She shows off her "Born in 2008" shirt here! :)

Part of our July 4th family tradition is to light small fireworks in the backyard. One of the girls favorites are the colored snake bombs.. which, in my opinion, look like big turds! lol

Rebecca, deep in thought! But beautiful! :)

Hannah Banana! Isn't she pretty!?

Hannah, and her friend, Emily.. who lives down the street. The whole block came out for fireworks!

Hannah, Emily, Rebecca.. you can see the fireworks going off behind them! Such fun!! And yes, Rebecca is in her PJ's! heehee


Party in the street!


Heidi, enjoying some freshly squeezed (and tweaked) lemonade ;)


Mary Anne and Amanda Joy