We got home from the Lloyd Family Reunion on the 4th of July, just in time to watch Kaysville's city fireworks with Jake and Ashley. Corbin enjoyed the show and liked talking about each individual firework that he saw. We identified shapes, colors and tried to come up with names for them all.
Makelle was cute because she was mesmerized by the flashes of pretty colors, but startled by the loud noises. So she would stare in awe, then jump a little and look up at Caleb to make sure everything was okay, then she would stare followed by a startle again, the entire time.
It has somehow become a tradition in Caleb's family to get together with his siblings and lite off personal fireworks as well. I think that is a normal part of many people's 4th of July celebration... however, the Miller's use their personal fireworks to reinact a modified version of the original Civil War it would appear.
Everyone gets a couple of tank fireworks and then they proceed to strap various other fireworks onto and inside of their tanks, then face them off to see who can win in battle.
It is always a fun surprise to watch, because you never know for sure what all explosives are strapped to each tank and when they will go off, so you could be watching a smoke bomb fizzle around and all of the sudden a ground blossom ignites.
After they are fairly confident that no additional fireworks will spontaneously erupt, everyone goes out to examine the remains and a winner is declared based on who's tank suffered the least amount of damage. Sometimes it is hard to tell... as Ashley stated, something to the effect of, "well mine continued to burn longer after the fireworks portion ended, so..."
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Ya, I used to try and post a blog per week but lately it has become 4-5 blogs all at once, once a month instead.
Oh well, at least I am writing something about our lives so that those poor kids will have some record of their childhood because heaven knows I suck at traditional journaling.
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