July 4th, 2010

As we sat on the lawn at Murray Park the fireworks began to shoot off. The kids thought it was great. Soon Nic started to name a super hero for each of the colored fireworks...

^Spiderman

^Hulk

(another red) I thought he'd repeat his first answer, but he didn't...
^Iron Man

I kept trying to shush him, but he kept going and the people sitting next to us thought it was pretty funny. As each firework came up he continued to come up with super hero's to match the colors in the sky, never repeating the same verdict. I could almost predict what each of his answers would be, but wondered what he would say for purple cause I couldn't think of a purple super hero. Sure enough a purple firework shot up in the sky and I paused and listened carefully to see what Nic would say.

There was a slight moment of silence and just when I thought he was stumped I hear him say... ^Hulk's pants!

That was last year's 4th of July. This year we stayed in Vegas. We have officially lived in our house for 3 years now. I still remember the first Independence day we celebrated here. Siope was only 1 and wasn't talking. Ti lit a small pack of fireworks as me and the boys sat on our small porch- Siope in my lap. Our neighborhood was pretty desolate. A lot of the land still open and few homes had people actually residing in them. Yesterday was much different. We could see fireworks going off in every direction we looked. It's so great to see how much the neighborhood has grown. The prior day we drove out to Pahrump for the first time and bought loads of fireworks. Kalo & Ulysses were here with their kids and after filling our bellies with some of Ti Tonga's delicious BBQ we started the fireworks show. We were soon joined by half of the neighborhood that had gathered around our street. Some of them standing on the street, others out on their balconies- each applauding after each firework that Ti Tonga lit. It was AWESOME!! This was by far the best fireworks show that we've had. We will most definitely be heading to Pahrump every year from here on out. We went to the pool for a late night swim then came home and the kids went straight to bed. It was such a fun day.