We started off at a potluck dinner with a great group of friends.
There was trampoline jumping---and nothing broken---hooray!
Lots of food and lots of conversation:
A swing set:
And about a thousand cans of opened and 1/3 of the way drank pop. That's how you know you're partyin' down with kids---lots of undrank pop :)!
And water balloon games:
Liam, trying to "de-seed" his watermelon.
Zane contemplating whether or not to further soak our friend Bill--big Bill retaliates with head dunks in the melted cooler ice after all! Yes--Zane threw it--and yes, he got held by his ankles and dunked!
This picture cracks me up! I told Ethan he looked like a caveman with his drumstick and asked him to give me his best "caveman face". This is what I got!
Then back home for ***FIREWORKS*** with friends Chris and Michelle and their girls. James and Liam freaked out at the smoke bombs going off when we first turned on our street. They H-A-T-E fireworks and were very happy to just go right to bed with their white noise machine running on extra loud!
Our neighbors across the street had set up their stereo outside and were blaring John Williams (mostly the "Superman" theme) over and over. Background music for the FOUR HOURS of fireworks they let off. Seriously. Four hours. and not just little fireworks, but big boomy, shooting up in the air ones. We missed hours one and two, made it for hour three, and spent hour four wishing they would knock it off already so we could go to sleep. When I woke up on Saturday morning, our street and yard looked like a battle zone!--covered in burn marks and firework shrapnel.
I guess the hour I spent cleaning it all up was just "thanks" for the $500 bucks they must have sunk on pyrotechnics--- that we got to watch for free!
55 comments:
Wow! You know how to party too (I just read Elena's cop stopping the show fireworks post). Everyone I love knows how to party! I seem to be attracted to fun personalities. Why must bland old me love to watch fun, and love fun people, but cringe to be a part? sigh....I run now at the thought of joining in.
The story and picture of "caveman" Ethan just was hilarious. It was my favorite btw of the whole post.
Congrats on the SITS love today!!
I love your playlist!
Looks like an awesome 4th of July.
The Superman music? Seriously? Over and over? that's funny.
Love the caveman face too!
Have a great SITS day!!
Your blog is awesome and way to go on being the SITS girl of the day!
Happy SITS day! Can't wait to read more!
Congrats on your special SITS day! Great caveman! :)
I LOVE your blog! Congrats on being a SITs Featured Blogger, too! I'm running a Giveaway on my blog--please drop by some time!
Congratulations on being the SITS girls today:)
Those are great pictures and I'm still checking your blog out!! Looks like you guys had a blast!!!
And OMG you are so right about the half empty cans of soda!
Love the caveman picture. That's so funny. Great blog.
Looks like you had a rockin' partay! But 4 hours of fireworks! Jinkies! My kids would have melted down after hour 1.
Hey! I just noticed that you are from Idaho, me too! And your interest in the Mormon Tab Choir led me to believe that you are Mormon, me too. Where do you live? Small world.
Brittany
i always love the fact that there is some family out there willing to spend mucho-bucks on something that i would NEVER spend a lot of money on. (i think that we spent around $13 for our fireworks....now that is reasonable for me!) amazingly enough; jack did really well with the fireworks. he was a little nervous during the evening whenever he heard a loud boom of any kind, but had no problems with the big show.
i think i would have finally yelled out my window around 4 1/2 hours...good thing you were only around for 2 hours of it--could you just imagine ALL FOUR HOURS!!!
Congrats on SITS! Love the picture of Ethan....definitely looks like something my Ethan would do!!
Congratulations on being SITS feature today! Where in Idaho are you from? I lived in Pocatello for 5 years. I just barely moved from there. Anyway, great blog!
Congrats, Sitsta! :) Love the caveman pic....too cute!
4 hours?? Holy moly! Found you on SITS, very cute blog!
Congrats SitsTa! AND beautiful 4th pics. Looks like fun. I love your blog background too. I especially love how it says "The Boy Squad", because I have boys too!!
Our part-time neighbors had a pyrotechnic display that probably cost them 1000.00 or more. We watch theirs before we shot off our 20.00 worth!!
We partied hard with some friends from church that are childless, but enjoy our kids. The diet coke and ice team flowed freely. We even had sundaes for dessert! :-)
Lisa Q
Sounds like you celebrated in SITSta style! Congrats!
Stopping over from SITS! Congrats on your feature.
Looks like your 4th was a TON of fun!
visiting thru SITS. Can't wait to explore your blog!
Nice photos! Congrats on being the SITS blog of the day!
Hooray you're the SITS gal of the day!!
Woo-hoo it's your big SITS day! I'd have to agree, 4 hours is a bit much. I'm more of a 30 minutes of great fun type. We went to McD's yesterday and there was a little boy who could have Liam's twin. I was going to take a picture to send to you, but I was afraid his mother would think I was a crazy child snatcher freak. He had the same hair cut and everything.
No fun like trampoline fun! No tired like trampoline tired.
Have fun with your SITS luv today!
How do you do it all? I'm exhausted just reading it all! I love your blog design and your 4th of July celebration looked like a blast, especially the "caveman"! Congrats on being the featured SITS sista today!
OOh...what a great way for a SITSta to spend the 4th! Looks like fun. At least your neighbors have the big pretty ones...ours just do the loud ones over and over and over!
4 hours, I think the song again and again would have made me go nuts. I would have had to grab my pot and spoon and done my crazed lady bit. You are too nice!!!!
SITS sister site - cool!!! I really do enjoy your blog, makes me feel more normal in some way. I hope that makes sense???
Congrats on being the featured blog today! I love your blog!
Lovely 4th July photos!! Looks like much fun was had by all!!
Here, in NV, fireworks are banned, except for public displays. The fire danger is just to high.
Back in NZ, we have Guy Fawkes night, where everyone lets off fireworks. Rather miss doing that..
Looks like you're getting fireworks today too in the form of comment love from SITS! Congratulations! I'm so glad more people get to know you, if there are any left who don't already read your blog. I hope each comment brightens your day!
Happy SITS day to you. Love your blog! Now I have another great one to sit for hours and read while my house falls down around me.
♡ What a fun day!
I didn't know it was SITS day for you!!! Congrats!!
Congrats on being featured on SITS your blog is soooo much fun!!!
Looks like you had a great day!
I'm visiting from SITS. Congrats on being featured today! I'm loving your blog! You & I have very similar musical tastes. I'm off to read some more and I'm sure I'll be back regularly. ;-)
Looks like ya need to do some educationing on caveman attitudes! And I can sure sympathize with that undrank pop!
Stopping by from Sits...I love your blog! The music i fun!
Came by you from SITS...and I must say, I can't wait to catch up on some of your posts! Looks like you had a great 4th, although my hiney would have been numb by the time the fireworks were over! :) How fun!!!
Can't wait to read more! Oh, and I would be in heaven to have 4 boys. I have one so far and hoping that when hubby comes back from overseas we can start on #2 and then #3. :)
Take Care!
Sheez! You already have 41 comments! You have definitely reached a different level with this blogging thing! So glad you had a great day! Looks like lots of fun. Love the picture of Ethan!
Seriously, it's funny how we can get on a blog and just YAP YAP YAP away...but if you threw us all into a room together we'd be blushing and backing into corners.
Unless drunk. Everything goes out the window when Jackie D. arrives.
The 4th is the best! Hubby loves fireworks. 4 hours of them must have cost a small fortune!!!
Great blog! I'm adding you to my blog roll!! :)
Just found you from SITS...Love your blog...4th of july sounds like so much fun!
That looks like the perfect 4th! I love the caveman picture!
It reminds me of Billy Crystal's character, "Max" from The Princess Bride!
Jennifer I missed the party!!! I am so excited that you were featured today..Now even more people will know of your fabulousness. Is that a word? I hope you are enjoying all your SITS lovin!
Hello. Had a look at Dave. Way to consevative for me. No way he could be a boyfriend.
That is a lot of fireworks.
Of course, that is one avenue of pleasure banned in Australia. No personal use of fireworks. Only official, you've got a licence, and paying a professional etc.
I remember when we were little we were still allowed to let off crackers. The good old days....
Looks like a good time!
We are also banned of fireworks, but I sneak sparklers past our county border and try not to get caught.
LOVE that picture with Liam! That's adorable. If it makes you feel any better about your neighbor and their fireworks, a neighbor of ours (well, down the street a way) was lighting fireworks in the middle of the day and lit the hill on fire. It burned two acres before the fire department could stop it. Stupid neighbors.
LOL my son has that same Mr. Mischief shirt. It's my favorite.
What a fun time. We had lots of people doing their illegal fireworks down the street so we had a great show for free as well.
Thanks for stopping by! I also have a bit of a !!!!!!!! problem so you'll always have sympathy around my blog!
So sorry I missed your day yesterday... too much work, sigh! Hope you enjoyed the comment love!
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