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We had a great 4th of July weekend. Except for the fact that I was sick and convinced that I was pregnant (I’m not). But that’s another story.
On the 3rd, we went with some friends to Mack, Colorado which is about 15 miles away from us and home to the famous Country Jam, USA. (I’m ashamed to be giving Country Jam even that much publicity, I loathe country music.) There, with about 10,000 other vehicles, we watched a great firework display.
It was pretty cool, we didn’t really know what to expect, having never, EVER been to Country Jam. So, we arrived to acres and acres of cars parked in a big grass field. Everyone brought their grills and fireworks and lawn chairs and some of them, like the people behind us, brought their whole liquor cabinet. (yikes!)
The firework show was fairly impressive, the kids enjoyed it SO much. Eden and her friend Alannah had so much fun oooing and aahhing over the display.
Honor was so excited over it too, every time a blossom would explode in the sky he’d shout, “MOM!” Just in case I didn’t see it.
There were so many cars there in Mack (what a name for a town huh?) that it took TWO HOURS to get out of there. We didn’t even bother to get in our cars, we just watched the vehicles in front of us inch along and the drivers yell at each other. Seriously, the truck in front of us moved two car lengths in one hour. We finally got out of there and were home by 1am.
For the 4th we went over to my friend Brooke’s house to eat tons of food and light off fireworks. You can’t tell by this picture, but the kids loved the sparklers.
There are no pictures of Honor holding a sparkler because it took both of us to keep mr. destruct-o-con from catching something on fire. I know that comes as a great shock…
On the way home, late last night, having stayed up WAY past her bed time for two nights in a row, Eden tiredly told us how things were.
“I don’t like the fireworks that go on the ground. I like the fireworks that go in the sky. The fireworks that go on the ground are a little bit scary.”
Category: holidays 6 comments »
July 5th, 2005 at 9:02 am
I love the photo of Eden and Alannah watching the sparks! Can’t wait until my girls are a little older and can enjoy them (personally, I’m not a fan, but whatever).
July 5th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Eden is wearing a red, white and blue dress in that picture. Your a good mom! I bet you got it at old navy:)
I am glad you guys had a fun time!
July 5th, 2005 at 11:41 am
What a great story! I hope next year we’ll be able to take our boy to see the fireworks!
July 5th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Yay fireworks!
July 5th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
We did the fireworks thing too. I’m with ya on the country music. Great pics:0)
July 6th, 2005 at 2:34 am
Cute pics, and glad to hear of others loathing country music as much as I do!