Fourth of July 2011

We celebrated the Fourth this year by attending a lot of fireworks displays.  We started out by going to Eagle Golf Course out here in McCutchanville Saturday night.  They do a great show for the residents of the subdivision every year and we have gone over to watch the last couple of years.  It is cool to be so close and they also last a long time.Nick's parents, his grandparents, my mom and Michele, my brother Stephen and his family, and my brother Jonathan and his family all attended.

Sunday night we went to my parents for dinner and then were planning on doing our fireworks that night.  Since it was raining so much we decided to postpone them.  Angie and Stephen were doing worship over at Northwoods church for their Fourth celebration so we went over there to hear them.  Afterwards they still had their fireworks display so we stayed to watch those.

Monday, Fourth of July, we had a relaxing day.  We went bowling with my family that afternoon, grilled out some steak for dinner, and then went downtown for the fireworks.  We met my sisters, mom, Angie, Stephen, and Tenley downtown and walked to the riverfront where we sat right on the hill sloping to the river.  It was a great spot.

Finally we finished up our fireworks on Wednesday night because that was the next night the majority of my family had off.  We had a good selection of fireworks that we started around 9:15.  We were almost done when some guy from the street over came by and said his dad was trying to sleep and sent him out to find out who was doing fireworks and tell us he was going to call the sheriff.  My brother, a cop, kept his cool and told him we were on our last one and the guy was fine with that.  We so wanted to tell him we looked it up and it was still legal in Indiana for us to set them off until 11 pm, but we didn't.

The cousins

Tenley liked the little chair

Shooting roman candles

My flash was so bright Navy couldn't be in a picture without closing her eyes.