4th of July 2008

It was a jam packed day with lots of fun in the sun. It started with a volleyball tournament for me, Scott and his brothers where we had lots of fun even though we lost our second game, but we will be back with a vengeance next year!

Then it was onto a BBQ and some swimming at my sister Shannon's house. It was nice to relax by the pool while the kids played (even the big kids!).

The "guys" talking about sports, of course.

This is video of Scott throwing the kids. They had fun with that for a while and then Scott needed a break.

This is a video of my dad doing a "can opener" (there was actually debate wether it is called a jack knife or not). Unfortunately I did not catch it the first time he did it. I am not sure who actually won the splash contest between the guys.

Then we headed home for naps and showers for everyone. Then at the last minute we finally made the decision to head up to Globe to check out their fireworks show. I was anticipating a week show and regret that we went up there, but it ended up being the exact opposite. There was plenty of space to find a parking spot in the Wal Mart parking lot (ya kind of white trash, huh) where the fireworks were being shot up on the hill of the mine across the street. They were really close and great! They lasted at least 30min. and were great! Afterwards people were honking their horns to say great job to the people doing the show and they replied by holding some sort of red sparkler thing. It was so cool to see these little people way up on the hill. It was awesome and it will now be a tradition of ours. The whole town shuts down so next time we are going to get there earlier and BBQ and everything, but the best part.....

Can you see that? 72 degrees! The weather was great! Not one sweat drop was seen!