The Long Weekend, prt 2

We woke on Monday to beautiful clear sunny skies!  The only plans we had made was to BBq at home and enjoy fireworks as the darkness came...  Our day was wide open... we did not do any chores, {the laundry was piling all weekend; I was tempted to run a couple loads to hang on the lines... since it was so nice}

We decided to bring deli sandwich lunch stuff over to my parents- My Mom stretched something in her hips and has been a little house bound in the last couple weeks, she hadn't been getting out much.  It is just fun to treat my parents once in a while.  My parents live in a 55+ gated community; the homes are individually owned, manufactured styled homes.  The community had a little parade planned, it was really cute; a few of the folks have old cars that they decorated, the local fire department "entered" a couple trucks, and a few ladies got together and had a little drill team...  It was short and sweet, it was really fun to cheer for the seniors, they had put a lot of effort into the event.  My Dad had helped to decorate one of the vehicles. 

My parents really were happy we were visiting, some one was making a funny expression in all the shots I took. 

We then came home, for a little quiet time before the evening arrived.  The neighbors just across from us buy a ton of fireworks each year, the last two years we've bought just a few ourselves, it's really a fun time- they have family over, we BBq and eat supper out in the front yard,  while they begin shooting off their huge pile...

We like to wait until it's a little bit dark-This was the first year that Hubby let the boys do the lighting... Oh, they were thrilled, I think they had shivers up and down their spines, it was very exciting for them.... Boys love to explode things....  Things really got exciting, at one point, a firework malfunctioned,  just missing Miss S and Miss E- I was in the house when that happened, it could have been a very serious situation, thankfully it was just a warning that fireworks can malfunction and that there is an element of danger involved...

When all the fireworks had been shot, we came in for late dessert, exploding Twinkies.  You place the tip of  a can of whipping cream in one of the holes on the bottom of the Twinkie and load it up, just until the cake part begins to separate... It's pretty fun :)

Tuesday it was back to work for everyone, including me, we tackled the laundry mountain and the babies were here.  We all were pretty tired and poky....  Wednesday morning me and the four slept in!