4th of July 2011

 We have started a fun tradition for the 4th of July.  The last two years our 4th of July consists of two days basically.  First of all this year we went down to Tenino to Natalie's uncle's house where some of Natalie other uncle and aunts were staying for the weekend.  Of course, we can't go down to Tenino without taking a ride on Uncle Ron's army truck.  Dillon and Kenzie get much more of a kick from it that Natalie and I, but it's still fun cruising through town. 

 Kenzie and especially Dillon sure had a fun time with Natalie's cousin Jarred.  Dillon is currently 6 and I believe Jarred is 8, so they hit it off really well.  Those two were basically inseparable the entire time.  We just let them roam through the acres of property.  Needless to say, Dillon slept really well on the ride home.

Above, Dillon and Kenzie chase after one of the parachute fireworks.

Tenino was on July 3rd and on July 4th we headed out to Enumclaw and the Lindstrom's house. Even though almost everyone there is related, we still fit in just fine with all 50 people there.  Our tradition includes lots of food, swimming, a 100-foot slip'n'slide and finally the mother-load of all fireworks.  We didn't take too many pictures this year, but here are a few videos. 

We did have one unfortunate event this year, as you can see in the video below.  They had lit of a firework that shot off multiple parachutes.  Well after the first shot went off the firework tipped over causing the second parachute to come flying out horizontally.  Kenzie was unfortunate enough to get shot in the behind with a parachuter.  Luckily she was fine after a few minutes.  Somebody had found a little frog hopping around and gave it to her which helped calm her down pretty quickly.