Dobron's came to town and stayed with us over the 24th. Dan bought a sweet spread of fireworks for us to light up! It was awesome!
These were the biggest sparklers I've ever seen! They were fantastic! They lasted so long the kids were doing all sorts of cool stuff with them!
We did have a tiny little catastrophe. Matt and Dan were lighting 2 Ariel's at a time and they had them on a table... We're new at this! Well both of them fell over, in opposite directions while they were going off and started shooting at us and blowing up all over the place. It was kind of hilarious, hind sight, and 2 people caught it on video. We are all laying on the grass Oohing and Ahhing and then all the sudden one exploded right by my head. I got up and took off running. Since we were putting on such a good show we had quite a few neighbors out watching from their driveways too. Well imagine their surprise when all of the sudden we are all yelling and screaming, kids are crying, things are exploding, it was insane! The worst part about the whole thing is that I took off running without any of my kids! I always thought in the middle of a disaster I would be a protective mother bear type, but apparently not! I ran off like a little girl and saved myself. I'm still really shocked and disappointed by that realization! After I got myself to safety I did instantly wonder where Cooper was... Does that count? It is definitely one of those situations that you are sick about for a while after just thinking about how much worse it could have been! We were definitely being watched over! No one was seriously injured, thank heavens!! Which is totally crazy, by the way, because in one of the videos we have of it you seriously see a child running right into an explosion! Scott and Cole both got little burns.
Our house and blankets took some pretty gnarly hits themselves...
But, after the shock wore off, and after we got some pretty frazzled kids settled down,
we went back out and finished them off and had a lovely time!
This cutie is such a little man...
He managed to get himself across the street during the pandemonium without so much as a scratch or a tear. And he was eager to get back out there and finish them off.
When it was all over he came up with a new dance and he appropriately calls it his "Firework Dance"!
Happy Pioneer Day!!
