4th of July

We had a very relaxed 4th of July weekend. We spent some time outside, time at my mom's and time just hanging out at home.

Sunday night Mike had planned to do a few fireworks (MN legal ones) at my mom's. Well, a few days earlier Mike's boss gave him a big one that he had picked up in ND and then Jon also had 2 that he got from a guy from his work the summer before that they never did. He had decided to light them off across from the grain bins pointing towards the corn field to keep it away from mom's house and other buildings. Well, turns out the two that Jon had must have had fireworks that shot out of the side instead of going straight in the air. Needless to say, we all ended up running away - Josh and Kristen especially since they were coming right towards them. A few shot off and hit the house even. It was a few seconds of scary but then lots of minutes of laughing since that was not supposed to or expected to happen! Kristen was taking video on her camera and all you see is shaking cause she was running haha.

this picture is of the 'bad' fireworks shooting sideways!

So the following night on the 4th we let the professionals do it and we went to watch them in Waconia like we do every year. We went around 8:30 and Mike took Bennett across the street to the park to play while we waited. They didn't start until about 10:15 but that didn't seem to matter to Bennett or Ashley and they both stayed awake without a fuss or meltdown. Bennett really liked them and even Ashley was watching. It's so fun to watch them through children's eyes!

I found a 'fireworks' option on my camera so got some pretty cool pictures of the fireworks fizzling out.