7.3.2011

Our neighborhood is so much fun! ha ha. You guys would've died if you saw the firework show right in front of our house last night. It was so great! We live like 3 miles from the Michigan border and right over the border you can buy the big light up the sky, baseball game type fireworks. So every 4th, everyone in the neighborhood crosses the border, buys the goods, brings them back and they have a big party in the circle. So we went up to Michigan the other day, and bought our fireworks to contribute. Last night was so much fun, we had a great time. Everyone brought out their lawn chair and just hung out. (I took this picture early, there were about 5x this many people out by the end of the night...)


T was terrified at first, but after a few minutes he was ok. (This was the only sparkler he held though...after this one he was done. And either Sam or I had to be holding him for the rest of the night.)


Little miss Maizie didn't like the noise one bit. She'd look at the lights, but all in all I think she had a pretty stressful night.


Around 10:30 the kids were tired enough to put to sleep, even with all the noise going on outside. So we put them down & Sam and I stayed up.


The cops showed up around 11. But that still didn't stop our crazy neighbors! ha ha. Our next door neighbor (who's a firefighter..haha) and who's driveway we were all hanging out in, said the cops have to come say something if they get a noise complaint, but that they're not going to do anything else about it, so anyway they didn't let that ruin the big grand finale. ha. It was probably the best firework show I've ever seen, and it was right in front of our house. No traffic, no crowds, it was great.


(Apparently Halloween in the neighborhood is an even bigger event. I already can't wait! ha.)