4th of July

This year was a little bitter sweet. There are so many changes in our family right now that this 4th of July was the best ever, and the worst ever. This was the last year we will host the annual Young family celebration due to moving. Jim will potentially not be with us next year due to deployment and it was just sad. So we decided to go out with a bang....literally.

We did the usual, way too much amazing food, a fire in the fire pit, pictures, rockin soundtrack created by yours truly and fireworks. Not just any fireworks though. Jim and the kids took a little field trip to Wyoming a couple days before the 4th and bought an arsenal of really amazing fireworks. We waited for dusk and mixed in one or two illegals with the little legal fountains and hoped for the best. The neighbors all came out to watch, or maybe to just watch their roofs for fire, and they were worth the money. Preston still doesn't like fireworks, so he spent the evening inside watching from a window. One of the teenagers from down the street came running over to tell us the fire marshal was in the neighborhood so we all went inside which Jim stayed outside to clean up. Two minutes later Jim sets off this grand finale-amazing display of all he had left. It was really really beautiful. And one minute after that a pretty red truck pulled up to talk to him.

Jim pulled the I'm from out of state thing and the guy let him off with a warning and gave all the kids

stickers. I thought that was pretty nice of the guy. I was a really great celebration and a good way to finish out a tradition that's been around since we bought that house.