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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Happy 4th of July!


We had a BLAST (he he - literally :) We had our 3rd Annual 4th of July block party and it was so much fun! Everyone had a great time - I think only 2 owies (little Jed got burned on the BBQ & Carter bit it on his bike - thanks to the gravel left behind from the Verizon workers...grrr) So out of however many kids we had over - not bad! We missed you Michael! Although you were on every ones minds. We had food (TONS) face painting (somehow I was nominated for that) a bouncy house, water slides, decorated bike parade & FIREWORKS!
Our neighbor works at the 5th Ave and his buddy is the pyro tech for the Shrek show that is opening here soon, came to our party - with his own commercial mortars and crazy amazing fireworks!
We have such a wonderful street, I'm so glad we're sticking close! Here are a ton of pics from the day, there are a ton of the fireworks - I had such a great time playing around with my camera this year..
.. Enjoy!
Our neighbor Jeff works for Frito - hence all the Frito tents!




Check out my amazing painting skills! Thats JR's head.








Carter - look closely, he's airborn - I dont think he touched the slide at all!



Sim WOULD NOT take his hand off his ears until some one hooked him up with some ear phones!!








Tami - all your missing is a tall bendy-straw!! :)












Chris was actually able to sit back and enjoy the show this year!



Ok - this is "Lady Liberty" Amazing!!



This picture of one of the mortars doesnt do it justice! They each had a name and amazingly they looked like what they were named...MAYBE that why they were named that! Ok, Im catching on!
We totally invited that guy back next year! SO awsome!! I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th!! (we did!)

3 comments:

Tracy said...

Wow. That looks like you had so much fun. I would have loved to be there.

Susan J. said...

Carlee, I love your pictures! You are talented girl! Just one question, why didn't we have parties like that on Country Court? Seriously, you look very happy in WA. Tell Chris and the kids the Johnson's from Auburn, GA said Hey! We will also keep your brother in our prayers! Love ya, Susan

neely said...

it's a good thing we left early...my boys would have freaked out if they saw some (any) of those fireworks.