Popsicles, Beer, and Blowing Sh^* up!

This past weekend we loaded up with car complete with dog's condo, and went to Edmond for the 4th. On top of seeing all my family and the craziness involved, my mom, John, and Mama moved into their new house. I do have to say it was fun to help out and I am exstatic about the fact that Guinness did not eat anything out of the million boxes strewn about the house. I fully expected at any point to see shreds of newspaper or bubblewrap all over the house, but he was SO good...I am such a proud mommy! I have posted pics to show you just how huge he is getting...and how huge the condo is that we pack up each time we go anywhere over night.

So Thursday nite we got to town, and went to the new OKC McNellie's to have dinner with some of my family. It was so good to see my cousins and their kids. Jeremy decided to make a huge straw in order to steal beer from Tyler's glass, in which case made the kids want really huge straws from cousin Jeremy...so what does my husband do, he of course makes them for two four year olds(cale and emma)...so they can drink their pop with the straws...did you think we'd honestly let them have beer....ok we might but give it a few more years. Emily even arrived from the airport from London to celebrate the 4th...It was a great time.

Friday was the 4th and we always go to my cousin Matt's for food, a keg of some kind, and fireworks. It's always good to mix beer and fire right? So we all swam, drank, ate, and lit stuff on fire...including myself...ok not technically on fire. But I did have a whole mortor blow up basically on my butt...We had a multiple shot firework exploded from all sides, and while running away trying to find emma and cale one shot right at my backside, and then erupted into wonderful green and white fireworks...I mean I have lit fireworks for 20 years and now when trying to teach new little people how to be safe with fireworks one EXPLODES! Craziness...so yeah I spent the rest of the evening in the pool followed by a drunk Tricia taping pieces of aloe plant to my legs...thankful she did that because the next mng you could barely see the couple of spots where I got burned, and only one spot really hurt that next day. Would you think I would continue to set off fireworks? Damn right I will and did!

The next nite, Sat., we went back to Matt and Tricia's to set off the rest of our fireworks, since our "show" was temporarily cancelled the nite before due to the explosion, and I of course against Jeremy's wishes finished off my fireworks, and no I didn't get burned again. That exploding cake was a fluke...hehehe...We did lots of sparklers and smokebombs with emma, and emptied the keg, and polished off the hot dogs...oh yeah and played a little rock band...my family is hilarious, sadly no pictures of that!

So despite my backside being blownup while rescuing children for rocketing fire, it was a fantastic 4th of July. It actually kind of makes me sad that I don't get to spend more time like that with my family...I mean look at those 3 faces eating it up...wouldn't you love to see them more often? I would...I will have to make more effort to see the whole fam when I am in town...