The weather held out yesterday, so Laura and her family came over last night around 7. Laura and her husband talked with my parents, while Munchkin and I played games. I have washer toss and bean bag toss from my camp days, so I pulled those out; Munchkin quickly invented her own game with the bean bags. I think I started it, actually, by putting a ( Read more... )

Last month, my town's fireworks got canceled after the Fourth of July show technically had started, due to technical difficulties. Naturally, they had to try to make it up, and tonight was that night. We had other stuff going on, so nobody was really up for going and doing the whole thing again, but my parents and I ended up standing out on the ( Read more... )

As I mentioned briefly before, our fireworks show fizzled. Here is more to the story ( Read more... )

I want to go into this further, but I also need to make a timely post as well: Our fireworks were canceled last night. We actually went, me and mom and Laura and her family, and we got there around 8:30, where Laura promptly spend about the next half-hour in line getting shave ice for her and Munchkin. While she was gone, I pulled out these ( Read more... )

This was not the greatest holiday ever ( Read more... )

As I start this, we'd normally be about 10 minutes into the fireworks show. Alas, they got canceled--there's severe weather (read: gigantic red blob) to the south, with tons of lightning, mainly heat lightning, in the sky ( Read more... )

Beware of language ahead. But, given the circumstances, it was appropriate ( Read more... )

So, last night ( Read more... )

Whoops, I never did mention what we did on the Fourth ( Read more... )

( Fireworks, high school remodeling update, and...an incident. )