4th of July morning the kids and I went to the annual breakfast with some friends at the Ashfords house. After the breakfast we went to buy fireworks and then home for Landon's nap. The Benoits invited us swimming, but since it was nap time I just dropped off Jacob, Savannah & Connor. (Zach chose to stay home and bask in the peace and quiet.)
In the evening we went back to the Ashfords to do fireworks. They live just outside the technical city limits, so we can do every kind of firework, right in front of their house. All of the kids did sparklers except Jacob. Last year all of the kids, but especially Jacob, were totally traumatized when the last HUGE firework set fell over and shot directly at us and the house. It took them all quite a while to even come over for sparklers.
Savannah "helping" me light some fireworks.
The kids hid out in this corner for a while for the first of the big fireworks.
Then Jacob moved to the porch and they all followed. Luckily all of them but Jacob loosened up after a while and were running around and getting excited.
Towards the end one of the dads that was there very patiently coaxed Zach to help him light some fireworks. In the past Zach has always been terrified of all fireworks and hated the noise, so it was a miracle that by the end he was lighting them and was the kid who wanted to stay and do more when it was time to go. Too bad for all of those pictures my camera was on the wrong setting and they are totally blurry.
Thanks for a fun day Ashfords!
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