Happy Birthday America

Summer finally decided to show up and luckily the 4th of July was clear and sunny. We had delicious food and celebrated with family on our deck. We're trying to take advantage of eating outside before we move. Chances are whatever house we find will not have a deck as awesome as what Mike built.





At dusk we started our fireworks display courtesy of Mary Ann and Jon. Collin's favorite are the sparklers. 



Then the real show began at nightfall. Our neighborhood suddenly turned into Afghanistan with professional looking illegal fireworks lighting up the sky. We watched our drunken neighbors across the street relive the show, "Jackass" while they shot Roman Candles at each other. Hmm some stuff I won't miss about this neighborhood.

It was a pretty awesome free fireworks show. We also watched from the "Pirate Deck" that Mike built adjoined to Collin's room, for the best view.

Finally, we ended the night with the grand finale firework that Papa brought. For a legal firework, it was pretty awesome. It lasted more than a minute with an impressive fountain of colors and sparks that blasted up into the sky. It was pretty surprising that it was actually legal. After that we resumed with watching some more of the neighborhood fireworks show. By 1030, Collin proclaimed he was tired and crawled into bed and fell right to sleep.