The three men certainly put on quite a show. Ryan and Rainey had lighters and Johnny had a lighter that was just a little bit bigger than the others. In the background of that picture, we are reminded by the half-staff flag that 19 brave men gave their lives last week, protecting people they had never met. We thank them for their service and pray that their families will be comforted.
We started off with a few ground lights, and loud noises.
Aimee plugged her ears for most of it and Charlotte cried through it until we realized she just needed ear muffs.
The kids received their first lesson in how to properly play with sparklers and then they were given some to play with.
But all the rules went out the window if you were an adult and had a big stick...
I think Rainey was trying to do a rain dance...but it didn't really work unless you count the lawn sprinklers as rain.
Then Jayke and Johnny got into a Harry Potter wand battle. Safely, of course.
Ryan and Johnny decided to find out what would happen when you light a bunch of sparklers all at once.
It gets very bright and very hot, but doesn't last a long time.
There was a lot of "lighting and running" by the men not wanting their hands or faces blown off.
We got to see this beautiful Arizona sunset.
And then set off some bigger ground lights, which of course, the cell phone does not do a great job of capturing.
We even ended up the evening with the neighbors in lawn chairs, watching from their driveway. It was awesome!
I was actually really surprised at many of the fireworks. I did not think that any of the legal ones would make a good show, but many of them were pretty fantastic! I even might have enjoyed them more than the air-launched ones we saw at the triple dome church later that night.
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