Vacation: Fireworks

Family, food, noise, great scenery and FUN!

You can't go wrong w/that combination. After a dinner of smoked meat, fruit, beans, homemade ice cream and chocolate cake, we enjoyed an AWESOME fireworks show! (Like I said in the my last vacation post......there not much illegal out there. It's definitely green enough).

The pictures do not do it justice, but here they are anyway.......ENJOY!

After our goodbyes and see ya next time, we took our journey north to Topeka, Kansas (my old stompin' grounds and the rest of my family).

Vacation: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, & Oklahoma

We hit the road at 6 AM June 1st and headed south into Arizona stopping in Page and Flagstaff. We have stopped at the Continental Divide before and enjoy the shopping so we got to do it again. The scenery thru NM is BEAUTIFUL! That night we made it to Santa Rosa, New Mexico and stayed the night. The kids enjoyed the pool while we enjoyed the hot tub. Only one mis-hap as Middle decided to ignore the NO DIVING sign. I had to take a picture for posterity sake and also it's an AWESOME blog pic!

We got to my Uncle John's around 6 PM on July 2nd, and the kids still had to head to the lake. They never miss an opportunity to get in the water.

Here are Middle and Youngest with their cousins............or as we know them "The Girls". Every time they get together they always put on a show for us. It is a privilege every time! Thanks you AWESOME GIRLS!

The 4th of July...................

My (almost) 80 year old Aunt Wammoth surprised us all by riding the tube (w/my Uncle Kent) and also the wave runner w/my Dad. Being able to see Aunt Wammoth and witnessing her fun escapades (and also visualizing my G'parents having a great laugh) made the long 24 hour drive

worth it. Check out her feet dangling.....she kept slipping down furthering in the tube.

Doesn't she look GREAT for 80!!!!! (Almost)
This a family favorite............... (we all understood the meaning behind this prayer ;) We all love ya Dad!

Here is a sneak peak out how the rest of our 4th of July went...............

Good food and loud noises!

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Coming soon..........

More pictures of some great fireworks (pretty much everything is legal in Oklahoma).

Vacation: Getting Out The Door

Our new door............

.....new dogie door anyway.

Before leaving on our 11 day 8 state tour, Van installed a bigger dogie door for Rocky not the kids. The kids thought they needed to try it out though. I was actually trying to get a picture of the dog sticking his head out. He loves to just stick his out and check out
whats going on instead of going all the way out. (I believe it is because it's 110 degrees outside.) This is our temporary solution when we are gone for over night of any kind. It wouldn't be as fun a post if it was the dog though ;-).