Sparklers

Wow! What a fabulous 4th of July!  The day kicked off pretty slow, and we spent most the morning cleaning the house and getting food ready, for the masses. (not really, just my parents, us, and a friend of mine. But we really did have tons of food!) Then before everyone came, we made our own little fireworks/ flags with glue and glitter.

Here's mine and Rory's: Rory did the flag and I did the fireworks!

And here is Mr. Ethan's:

We couldn't hang his up though because he put puddles of glue on the paper, and it would've just ran all down my fridge! :) Jaocb tried Cheerio's for the first time today too. It was so cute watching him try to eat them. He would get them in his hand, but they would just stick to them, and he just couldn't quite get them in his mouth. It was too cute!

While he was attempting to eat them, I  had to be a little more festive and make some yummy chocolate strawberries!

So after we got all the crafts done it was about time for everyone to come on over. We had a delicious bbq. The meat turned out great! (Go to http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/zesty-slow-cooker-chicken-barbecue/detail.aspx for the recipe). Then after we gorged ourselves, we settled down and waited for dark. There was a ton of people in the area and neighborhood doing their own fireworks, so we got quite a show. We bought fireworks but didn't go to the reservation, so they weren't anything grandiose. But they were still fun. Ethan was a little skeptical about the sparklers, but was loving those popper things. (I don't know what they're called. You just throw them on the ground and they would pop) He would get handfuls of them, throw them down then bow. It was pretty funny. Jacob wasn't really sure what to make of all the fireworks. He was to tired to care I think though.

Here's some more of the action. Below they are dancing and playing with the sparklers.

After pretty much all the stand fireworks were over, Rory decided to try something he had heard of, and that was steel wool 'fireworks'. It ended up being the coolest fireworks of the night. There's no way to really describe it, so I'm posting a video. Enjoy and I hope everyone else had a happy 4th of July!