After our lovely neighborhood bike parade, we had our annual Costco fireworks pack firework show. It was the warmest 4th of July evening I can remember in our nine 4th of July's out here. Usually we wear jackets or have a blanket to cuddle under.I love the picture above. I believe this was a tradition that began when we used to do fireworks with Jeff and Kelli. It is officially called the firework "stack" and it raises our viewing pleasure and the danger factor up a bit - just to make it more exciting. The neighbor boys across the street loved helping Mac* with the "stack".
Angela preferred the "poppers" to all other sparklers and fireworks. She did NOT like the sparklers and was pretty nervous about the bigger fireworks.
Sarah was doing all sorts of lovely moves and formations. She is a crack up.
This is how I feel about sparklers too. Natalie is cautiously enjoying them. (o:
I call this the "airplane" sparkler formation. Sarah was doing all sorts of crazy poses for the camera.
Ohhhh Ahhhh - the grand finale - four fireworks at a time. It's hard to tell, but there are 4 going at the same time - one on top of the stack two on the sides and one in the front center. Amazing!
We had a fun time with our neighbors the Wangemanns. Shortly after I took this one, the Merkels joined us with their kids and brought some of their own fireworks. We had a great time visiting and enjoying the fireworks together!
Angela preferred the "poppers" to all other sparklers and fireworks. She did NOT like the sparklers and was pretty nervous about the bigger fireworks.
Sarah was doing all sorts of lovely moves and formations. She is a crack up.
This is how I feel about sparklers too. Natalie is cautiously enjoying them. (o:
I call this the "airplane" sparkler formation. Sarah was doing all sorts of crazy poses for the camera.
Ohhhh Ahhhh - the grand finale - four fireworks at a time. It's hard to tell, but there are 4 going at the same time - one on top of the stack two on the sides and one in the front center. Amazing!
We had a fun time with our neighbors the Wangemanns. Shortly after I took this one, the Merkels joined us with their kids and brought some of their own fireworks. We had a great time visiting and enjoying the fireworks together!Just an interesting sidenote - about 3 or 4 days after the 4th, I was in the front yard with the girls. It smelled really good outside like someone was having a BBQ in the middle of the day. Later, when Mac* went to get the mail he noticed something strange and came to get me. We had smoke, just a little, coming out of our barkdust in our frontyard. It smelled really good - that BBQ smell I noticed earlier. We dug around a bit and never really noticed anything that caused it. Our guess is that a piece of firework or sparkler dropped down in the barkdust and had been smoldering all that time! Kind of scary.
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