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Friday, July 24, 2009

sparkle eyed

Tonight was our annual 24th of July BBQ/fireworks show. We were a small group with Lindsey and her family up in Park City (celebrating her beyond awesome 10K today! She ran a 32:37...I think....beat her best time by more than 30 seconds! Came in 4th behind 2 Kenyan olympians and another girl who is also competing at a national level. There was only a 15 second difference between runners 2,3, & 4....needless to say....Lindsey rocked the race!). Nicole and her family were up at their cabin with Kelly's parents, so that left my parents, Damon, and his kids (Ora is on vacation). I know, long unneccessary explanation. We made bomb burgers...hamburgers, crumbled blue cheese, melted provolone, topped with pineapple...super yummy! As soon as it was getting dark, we pulled out the chairs and started throwing poppers and lighting the sparklers.

Carter throwing his handful of poppers yelling "firebomb!"

Jace being careful to only throw one at a time...he had to make sure each one popped.

ooooohh.....sparklers!

Carter turned and yelled "expelliarmous!"....been reading a lot of Harry Potter...wands are now a common occurence at our house. Jace ran around all morning waving a sword and yelling out spells (anything long and rhyming is a spell).

The wind started kicking up...Maddy thought she was pretty brave letting the sparks hit her hands.

The trailer made the perfect seat for the girls...Lady was memerized.

There is something special about summertime fireworks.

Trey wins the award for the best sparkler picture of the night. He just couldn't get enough! Maybe summer is the most wonderful time of the year?!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the congrats on the race! Your night looks like it was a blast...we will be there next year!