Fourth of July 2012

I know I 'm a little late for the 4th of July post but.... everyone is celebrating the 4th up until this weekend anyway. We had planned on going down town to watch a professional display but the weather report said probable downpours maybe with hail so we decided to stay at home. But with no plans on that we had to run out and find some fire works. And we did.

  Early in the day we went to my Aunts house for some swimming and visiting with relatives.

We left just before the down pour, there was no hail. Thankfully the rain let up just before dark and we got ready to light up the sky.

V set up a Chinese lantern. I don't know how American that is but it was a flag lantern.

After bar-b-queing the ribs for dinner. Husband got the bonfire started with an old wooden crate. Everything was really wet, so let me tell you the boys got talent when it comes to fire.

Me and V set some tiki torches around to chase off mosquitoes and there was nothing left but to wait for the sun to set.

Hubie using his Florida coozy and watching the beautiful sun set.

Husband stuck with his beer but I wiped up a pretty good rum drink. That you can check out out the recipe part of the blog.

See what I mean talent!

We saw these great fireworks coming from our neighbors and decided to wonder over. Turns out they had purchases about $400 worth. And we had a great view right in our back yard.

Sparkler!

Ground firework with firework feature on the camera.

 We lit our own off too. And every time one went up the neighbor on the other side of us cheered. It was and impromptu block party. Even though most of the neighbors on the block were gone.

We all really enjoyed the night.

Catching you up.

July!

Family came down and boy was it a busy month. Well, I already posted about our canoe trip and it's already August so I will do the short and sweet version of last month.




Kay and Mom on the 4Th!

 The 4Th of July was a blast! Getting together with family and friends over at Aunt Patty's resort. For a fun day of swimming and bar-b-Que. Catching up with family is always a good time. We had live entertainment via Dylan and Dalton who played guitar, bubbles and fireworks. Couldn't ask for anything better. And I even got a picture of Kay with her eyes open!

GATORLAND

Me and Chris acting like tourists.

Next day we went to Gator land. Talk about nerve wracking. We thought one of those guys was going to loose his hand when they were feeding the alligators and not to mention wrestling them. We had a great time even with all the Florida heat. Definitely a one of a kind experience. 

BEACH



Gary taking the beach home with him.



And of course everyone who comes to Florida must go to the beach. We did some body surfing and sand castle building. All the typical beach things. You can't have a bad day at the beach.

August!

Rain sheeting off of the neighbors shed.

This month started off with a storm out in the Atlantic. Luckily it fell apart and was not much of anything. We did get some really good rain. And there was a water spout spotted in a near by lake. Now we are all just hoping to make it through the heat of August.

Dove that has adopted us as his new home.



Honey suckle that Aunt Gail gave us is really doing well.





Nothing but beautiful sunsets for the rest of the summer.



August is back to school season for us here in Florida and so the summer has almost come to an end. But because it's Florida we will have nice warm weather until at least October. I'm sure we will be out and about some more before it's all over with.

We are back!

We made it back just as fast at we got there despite agreeing to take our time and not drive like the roads going to fall apart.Chris just can't drive slow.  But the trip was great! We met up with everyone in Kansas, at my sisters. My brother John and a friend Wendy and her daughter drove up from Arkansas. Then we all headed to Oklahoma for the graduation. 

We got to see our soldier graduate basic training. 

Doesn't she look good.

That's all that army food! She said it was pretty good. Which makes me wonder about our cooking. But... the first thing she wanted was fast food restaurants so I think she was exaggerating the goodness of the army food.

She really bulked up while she was there. All muscle! Her arms are as big as her dad's now. That may not be saying all that much but she was a toothpick when she left. Yep! Heslin attitude with the ability an knowledge of how to kill people bare handed. Well, they did gave her a gun and showed her how to use it. So ya'll bad guy's better watch out. Cause my daughter is awesome!

4th of July

We spent the 4th at my sisters in Kansas. Boy was that a lot of fun. People in her city are crazy for fire works. It sounded like a war zone with all the mortar type fireworks. All we had to do was walk outside every house was lighting them off. People had attached candles to tiny parachutes they lit the candles on fire and  they flew up and over the houses all night. I asked my sister but no one there worries about their houses catching on fire. And there was definitely no forests to worry about. We had a blast. (No pun intended.)

It was very difficult but we finally got the whole crew to stand together long enough for this one, yes only one, picture. The kids were all having so much fun playing with the pool table, lighting off fireworks, running all over the place. It reminded me of Thanks givings at my Aunts when I was little and the whole family use to get together. Hope we don't have to wait another 20 years for everyone to get together again.