Fireworks at night

Many of you already know the 4th of July is my brother's favorite holiday. As kids we used to ride our bikes around the neighborhood the next day, collecting all the fireworks on the ground. Aaron would then take all the left-over gun powder and mortars and make his own. Before he could drive, he used to ride his bike all the way over to Washington and buy all the airborne fireworks that are illegal in Oregon. Then when he got a car...and was earning more money...let's just say he probably kept some of those stands across the river in business!
We started off the night with the kids throwing pop-its everywhere.

Here is Aaron's scaled back contribution. This is about one half of what he usually gets, but he is saving his money for guitar making supplies.

Here is half the crew...the others are sitting on the lawn.

The kids liked the sparklers...

Hayden kept saying "wow!" over and over. After the fireworks were done we all made smores by the fire (not caused by the fireworks!)

The Basement Project has begun!

After rolling another load of pink insulation down the stairs, Dan and Aaron were ready to get to work. You can see Tami and Alexis are down in the basement watching all the excitement.

Aaron helped out by cutting the insulation to size.Then Dan stapled it all together with some rope to hold it in place.

Dan tried to hang himself in the basement but didn't realize the rope is supposed to go around the neck, not the pocket. I guess he will have to finish this project after all!

Brotherly love! After inhaling insulation for 4 hours, the two workers became confused and the result was not pretty. One thing that is pretty are those gloves Aaron is wearing. It takes a real man to wear my floral garden gloves as work gloves.

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Unfortunate Fortune:

Last night my family all met up at Chang's Mongolian Grill to celebrate my brother's birthday (which is actually tomorrow). We all had a good time and good food. On our way out, as is customary, we all took a fortune cookie. Here is the one my brother got. This has got to be the worst fortune ever. I thought it was funny. Right now I am so tired, my judgement is off...this should have been my fortune!