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Star Spangled Celebration

We ventured out yesterday to Mark's aunt and uncles house ,The Tios, for the Fourth. We stopped at the fireworks tent on the way. They are now legal in most of the areas around here. And what says I love the US more than lighting a bunch of stuff on fire and watching it blow up? It also brought me back to my days of youth. Where most Fourth of July's consisted of bags of fireworks set off in the backyard. Complete with sparklers for the kids which we held as fire spewed out the end. As soon as we had made our purchase, we got into the car to head out and the rain began to fall. Never fails here. It always seem to rain on the Fourth. Just in time to get the ground wet and cause displays to be cancelled.

We arrived and soon were eating yummy food that had been grilled despite the short rain shower and enjoying the company of The Tios, the boys and some of Tia's family. Soon enough the kids and boys were able to head outside and tackle the big bag of fireworks.

Mark had said he was not interested in setting anything off but apparently when males get around fire and such they can not contain themselves. The next thing I know Mark has a punk lit and is grabbing a big box thing of fire power and lighting them. The prepacked bag we bought had some really neat little fly in the air with lights and sparks deals in it. Not too loud and fairly pretty. The kids had a good time. And no, they did not hold their own sparklers nor go anywhere near anything that was going off.

Here are some pictures of our Fourth.

What would a holiday be without some sugar cookies?

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Spewing fire.....AWESOME!
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More spewing fire.....
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Wow and oh on....
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Hope everyone had as great a Fourth as we did!

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