July 4, 2005 – And the rockets red glare…….

For the Fourth we had a nice little BBQ over at my mom’s house and had some Ribeye steaks, hot dogs, kilbasa, corn on the cob, and baked beans. After dinner we headed up to Mountain Crest Park (Natalie’s favorite little daytime water park) to set off the fireworks we bought, but soon realized we had a wonderful view of all the firework displays being set off by the city all over that side of town at all the various parks. Natalie had a blast, and she managed not to burn herself with the sparklers this year (YAY!), but poor Lexie sat in the truck shaking and terrified! There were also some idiots in the park shooting off the illegal fireworks irresponsibly, and by irresponsibly I mean shooting bottle rockets at cars and such. It was rather annoying!