Happy 4th of July!!!!!

Well we finally had a relaxing day with not a whole lot going on. We were waiting for night to fall so we could finally bring out the fireworks for everyone. We started off with sparklers and then moved on to the big stuff. We had about a half hour of stuff and had a lot of fun. Even Savannah stayed up for quite awhile (way, way past her bedtime) and watched the show. Then we sat on the back screen porch and watched what everyone else was launching. A bunch of folks within a couple mile radius of us shoot off quite a few large shells and we had a good time watching. At ten we finally decided to round up the boys and get them to bed, Tristan of course went without any coaxing, he was pooped out. Jack wasn't quite ready to head to bed though so he watched a bit of the Boston Pops show. Then Jaesen came running inside shouting that there was a fire behind the house. I went outside and sure enough just behind one of the houses behind us was quite a large brush fire. Jaesen got into long pants and flight boots and grabbed a shovel. I knew our neighbors were gone so I grabbed our hose reel and headed out behind Jaesen. He went and threw dirt on the fire until the fire department showed up and I watered the neighbors backyard down. It came within about 40 feet of their backyard. Then we decided to go over and meet our new neighbors who moved in two days before. We promised them that we don't have this kind of fireworks show often, only for the most special of neighbors! That was the big excitement for our neighborhood last night though. Jaesen's parents left on Thursday after helping us out for a couple weeks while I am in school and the kids had a bunch of fun with Cappie and Gran. Weezer comes in tonight and hopefully Pops will be here on Wednesday for a bit, so the kids are being spoiled with grandparent love. You can never go wrong with that.