Happy 4th of July!

I know I'm burning the midnight oil on this blog, but the neighborhood is still rockin' with fireworks, so who could sleep anyway??? We had a wonderful Independence Day back in the good old U.S.A. this year. The Warthen's invited us to join their annual party at Aimee's mom's house right on Dyes Inlet. We learned that everyone in Washington visits their local Indian Reservation to load up on illegal fireworks, then shoots them off at 10:00 (when it finally gets dark here!) We had quite the show looking out on all those festive fireworks folks in Bremerton and Silverdale.

Chris and Emma hanging out in the yard.Camden with his two biggest fans.
What an awesome sandbox! We need one of these!

Camden, Dylan, Emma, and Claire enjoying some dinner.

It sure isn't the 4th of July without watermelon!

Camden hung out with one of his favorite gal pals, Nora.

Chris has perfected his water balloon toss form. Too bad Chris W. tossed it right back into the water!

Emma is ready to toss (but am I ready to catch?)

What a family!!!

The "warm up" fireworks were very entertaining.

(The fashion police would have been after Camden in his jammies and sneakers!)

Emma wasn't quite sure what to think about the sparklers...