Watermelon, Jello Cake, Water Balloons and Fire(works)

Yesterday was the Fourth of July, and for the second year in a row we decided to host the family at our place for a BBQ and to watch the Fireworks that our neighbors light off (and maybe to light some off as well). I started the day off doing a bit of last minute cleaning, running by the store and attempting to cut the tip of my thumb off. Unintentionally of course, thank goodness for nails that's all I have to say! I suppose there just might be a good reason Dani always takes the knife away from me when I cut potatoes, to bad she wasn't here yet when I was preparing them for the BBQ. No worries though, it'll be awhile before the nail grows out enough to not have a cut there, but it'll heal up fairly well I'm guessing, though I'll probably have to keep a bandaid over it for awhile to keep from catching things on it.

We had said, show up between 3 and 4pm, being my family the first person got here around 4pm and they trickled in from there. In the end we had nine people here including ourselves, nothing huge but it was great having people over to celebrate with. Before people started showing up I had been thinking how the Fourth at my house is nothing like it was at the lake growing up. It's sad to think that we won't have another Fourth at the lake with Grandma, as the lake is just not the same without her there.

After sitting around for awhile talking and catching up with each other we finally decided to start the food! And the Fourth of July food is always the best summer food! We had watermelon, grilled corn, potatoes, hamburgers, hotdogs and various other snacks. Richard grilled up the stuff on the grill while the rest of us proceeded to dowse each other with water balloons. With as hot as the day was the water felt wonderful!

Following the food we moved out to the front to watch fireworks, and light off a few as well. I'm not big on lighting them off myself, my neighbors do such a good job of it there really isn't a huge point, my neighborhood sounds like a war zone on the 4th. Cassandra brought a few fireworks however so we did have a few to light off. In the process of lighting various things they managed to light my front yard on fire, nothing major but it really did remind us just how dry it is out there. We also had a firework tip over and shoot right into our neighbors yard and start a tiny fire there as well (it also went flying into our yard right at the cars as it spun around launching explosions up and down the street).

All in all it was a fun filled day! I quite enjoyed myself!