We had a blast this fourth of July. We had 4 other families come and join us for a day of fun. We started off the day with some nice grilled dogs, baked corn, baked beans, italian pasta salad, chips, cookies, and a strawberry blueberry something. YUM YUM !! Oh, lets not forget the watermelon. After we stuffed ourselves with good summertime food we let the kids shoot off the parachute men. They fly into the air and pop open a parachute and float softly to the ground were little children anxiously await their arrival. J also shot off about 20 bottle rockets, we have about 200 left. NO I AM NOT EXAGERATING!!!! That boy bought 2 suitcases full of fireworks. They really are called suitcases. They even came with a free shirt! The kids will now be sporting around Alien Fireworks backpacks/rolly bags.After that the kids all ran around shooting each other with water guns and slipping down the slip and slide. I got some of the adults up for a WILD game of volleyball. First we were good adults and let the small children play then we were in it to win it and played ADULTS ONLY!!!! We ended up playing for like 4 hours with a few short water breaks in between. I talked to everyone Saturday morning and we were all feeling the burn. After our fierce volleyball playing we all had some more hot dogs, I am glad it is Monday and they are finally all gone! It was starting to get a little dark so everyone got prepared for the firework show. J started shooting them off around 8:30 the show ended at 10:30 we had more fireworks then the city could put off. We all had a wonderful day and can't wait till next year. In fact we all had so much fun we are having another family day at our house in August.
