Fireworks

Cameron really HATES fireworks! Last year we went to Dairy Queen by the Temple to watch the fireworks and it freaked him out so much that he sat in the car crying with music on and was still scared.
We had bought an arsenal of fireworks this year so after dinner we started working on them. We brought Cameron out thinking that since he is another year older that he would be okay.

Gracie even got into the action with papa of course. She didn't mind them at first they where a little loud but she was okay with it. Cameron on the other hand didn't do so hot. Cris convinced him to stay outside for a little bit. We found out that Cam likes the colored smoke bomb things, he doesn't mind the sparklers either. But anything that makes noise forget it he wants nothing to do with it.

Blaine and I are pretty big piros (sp?)so we thought that maybe Cameron would like it better if he felt like he was part of the action. So Blaine had him help light a smoke bomb and then Cameron helped throw it out in the street. Lets just say it didn't help. When we did the big ones after it got dark Cameron ran into the house and didn't come back out again.

It started to get a little to loud for Gracie so she and I walked down the street a couple of house and sat on the curb and watched the lights and then it wasn't as loud.

This was our mess after we where all done. The Bankhead's came over and brought some of what they had so we had a fireworks show on our street. Since it was so dark the picture didn't turn out very good but you can see this is when we bought them the day before at Sams Club. Cameron fell asleep so we just had to pile stuff on top of him. That huge box of fireworks was like 45.00 and I think when we go to the tents we usually get suckered for more than that and we got better stuff in the package from Sams. So I think we will be going back to Sams next year. All in all it was a good 4th of July. Hoping that next year we are in our own house so we can really have a party.