4th of July Family Time

With Nick leaving for the Army, Don's family decided to come to NC so he could have a big send off...Richard and Joan from CA, Gregg and Jack from MN.  It also happened to be the 4th of July week.  While Don and Nick headed to the airport to pick up Richard and Joan, Gregg and the boys and I headed to the local Waxhaw 4th of July parade.  It was a gorgeous day, perfect weather for a parade, not too hot especially for NC.

 

 

We decided to have an impromptu cookout and invited some neighbors over and my Mom and Terry. We pulled a couple extra burgers out of the freezer and we had a party including sparklers for the kids.

 

A neighbor down the street had gotten fireworks to shoot off, so that meant we didn't have to drive downtown to watch them. They put on a great show but about 1/2 through, the heavens opened up and the rain came down, we waited for what seemed like forever for the rain to stop to resume the show!  But it had been a long day and we weren't sure if it would pass so we headed home quickly in between the raindrops.

Happy Independence Day America!