Ending the Night with a BANG!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! We had a great holiday! We hung out all morning...well, Shane let me sleep in while he took the kids to breakfast, and then the kids watched me beat the easy level of the new Guitar Hero game! (I let them play too!) Then we were off to the Padgett's to celebrate the day!

The kids had a great time in the pool!

Rylie even unveiled her new "zucchini" for the occasion!

Mason and Parker always love it when Tim gets out his little league baseball pin collection! They always come away with new additions to the collections they have started, courtesy of Tim!

Parker and Shane waiting for the fireworks to start! We had a great view of the city firework show from just in front of Tim and Julie's house!

Me and Julie after a fun day of celebrating! Don't worry...that's an IBC in my hand...I promise!!!

As soon as the fireworks were over we jumped in the car and were home in time to set off some fireworks of our own! (We got some while we were in Farmington for Ty's wedding a few weeks ago!) The kids did some sparklers and then Shane pulled out this HUGE firecracker! Now...this is the first time we have ever bought firecrackers. We usually go for the fountains, etc...so this was a new addition to the regular stuff! Shane looked like a little kid pulling this huge thing out of the wrapper! He went to set it off in the middle of the yard and all of a sudden it sounded like we were in the middle of a war zone! This thing was so loud! Rylie and I had our ears covered and it was still loud!

So...now the other part of the story. We had no idea that on the other side of the fence, there was a tent full of sleeping kids! Yes...you can imagine what happened when that firecracker went off! The screams of terror from these little kids were indescribable! The the screams of anger from the woman with them weren't very pretty either! (It wasn't our neighbor...we didn't know who this lady was!) The cries of disappointment from our kids when our firework show abruptly ended were very heartbreaking! Shane and I felt awful all the way around! Of course we never would have done that if we knew there were people sleeping outside...but it wasn't even 10:00 on the 4th of July! Shane apologized over the fence...and we called our neighbors immediately...they were cool about the whole thing...but we still felt so bad!

So...the moral of the story is...don't set off fireworks in your backyard before checking over the fence! Ok, ok...it should be don't set off fireworks in your backyard at all, but it's kind of a family tradition, so I think we'll have to stick with the first one!