Fourth of July Festivities

Fireworks are sold in Chadron from June 26th to July 4th. Every single night we were able to listen to quite the bombarding of sounds. And there are no regulations for town other than stop by 11 or something. So anything went in town. And everyone (besides us) made sure they bought all the giant bright exploding ones. Our friendly college boy neighbors even had roman candles war next door and managed to bounce one off our house.......they are really lucky they didn't do it again because I think Mike really wanted to tell them what's what. :)

Anyways....that last weekend in June we went and bought some stuff to do with the girls since Mike was kinda guessing that he would be gone for the 4th and would miss it.

So here are some pictures from our fun with Mike.

Sidney thought the snakes were SO cool.

 

I loved her excitement over them!

One of the monkeys riding a bus or something like that....(it rolled and shot

off sparks) took a wrong turn and ran into the wood step/door frame.

Go figure that we would try to burn down our 1st house. :)

Everything was fine....don't worry. We had a bucket of water available. :)

Trying to pull the confetti shooters....

Sidney ended up needing one of us to hold the container as she pulled the string.

Sidney also LOVED the sparklers.

Kylie liked them too, but wasn't as into it as Sidney was, but

she still gave me a smile when asked for one. :)

We taught Sidney how to move her arm around and spell things.

As well as she can "spell" things.

We also picked up a few of the ones that just emit showers of sparks.

Day 2 of fun with dad!!!

More snakes!

Smoke bombs are always a big hit.

spark shooting rooster

More sparklers....

I think I have like 6 boxes left!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike ended up leaving the 29th of June for 2 weeks, so it was a good thing we had some fun with him. On the 4th, the girls and I just hung out and then we went to a little potluck bbq with some of his co-workers just east of town. Kylie made a new immediate friend with a teenager, and then at the end of the night another little girl came for a little bit. So the girls had fun. They also got to set off more fireworks so that helped. :)

 

Here are photos from the 3rd and the 4th of July.

 

Nothing like eating an ice cream cone on the deck after playing in the pool

and your mom taking a horribly weird photo of you. :)

 

Ditto to above caption. :)

I guess I'll add a photo of me....I was there 4th of July weekend too.

 

More smoke bombs

 

And more sparklers

 

 

Sidney really got into them

 

 

 

 

 

The giant gorilla at the firework tent....they wouldn't

get any closer. :)

all decked out with red, white & blue nails

 

helping me make dessert for the bbq

my yummy cheesecake

 

The best I could get from her that night. :)

 

A storm rolling in

 

 

my sad attempts with my phone to capture the lightning....

at least you can kinda see the clouds lit up.

 

 

We got home just after 10, and after I got the girls tucked in, this is what I got to listen to the rest of the night! - Not a lot to see - just lots to hear!

 

 

 

It was a good weekend. Just too bad Mike couldn't be there too.

Hope you all had a good 4th!

 (And a good July for that matter! I can't believe tomorrow is the last day of July!!)