We got to spend the day together as a family. We didn't do a whole lot during the day. Everything we could think to do involved being outside in our 100+ degree heat. So we passed. This evening, we took an exciting trip to Walmart, for lack of any better options, and bought some fireworks.
We fired up the BBQ for dinner, which means our kids had frozen chicken nuggets. Maybe someday they will learn that things cooked on a grill taste good. But Nate and I had steak. After dinner, we had a family movie night and watched Rise of the Guardians. None of us had seen it before. We enjoyed it.
Even though it was late for the kids to still be awake, we went outside after the movie to do our fireworks. We bought sparklers and those little popper things that come packed in sawdust that you throw on the ground. The kids had a blast. And I will admit that the parents had quite a lot of fun too. It was pretty funny at first though, because our box of matches is very old and apparently, that affects their ability to lite. So, in order to lite our sparklers, Nate was using our lighter fluid-filled lighter to lite the matches and then using the matches to light the sparklers. Why didn't we just use the lighter to lite the sparklers? I'm not quite sure. I think we were trying to conserve the lighter fluid. Anyways, after realizing that was ridiculous, especially because the sparklers sometimes took longer to light than the matchstick would burn, I went and got a couple of candles. It worked great.
Happy Fourth of July!
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