4th of July

We celebrated 4th of July at the Pelkey's house. In the morning my parents took Ben to the parade with both Pelkey families and Hitson's. I'm not sure if anyone else was there since I didn't go. Matt and I stayed home since we knew it was going to be hot.

Then we went to the Pelkey's house around 5:00 for a bbq. We got in our swim suits to go swimming.

In this video they were playing a game where Matt and Ben had to try to touch the walls while they're sitting in the tubes, and Andrea and Stephanie have to try to stop them.

Another game we played was Blind Man's Bluff, but we played our own version of it and we either call Bluff Man's Blind, or Buff Man's Blind, I can't remember if it was "Bluff, or Buff". I think it'd be funnier if it was called Buff Man's Blind though. Then Bro. Aaron said, "let's play body slam your friend!" Everyone would pick eachother up and dunk eachother. It was funny, Stephanie was trying to do it to Matt.

Soon after that we got called out to eat. Us kids were playing with those little fireworks that pop. Whatever they're called, lol. We were popping them in our hands.

Daneka wanted to go in the teeter-totter so Bro. Jim played with her with his hands.

The kids got on the trampoline and Daneka saw my camera and asked for it.

Matt, Ben, Bryan, and Stephanie were throwing eachother a football with their feet. But in this picture it is only Matt, Ben, and Bryan.

After we ate we went back in the pool. Ben got in a lot of tubes. It looked funny. Then Stephanie and Andrea did it too.

Stephanie could barely do it!

Group shot! Stephanie is riding her horse.

We got called out to get dried off so we could watch the fireworks and eat dessert.

My mom took a picture of my dad and Bro. Jim, but they blinked. So she took another one, and they blinked again. So my dad told Bro. Jim to look away from the camera so they wouldn't blink, and they still blinked, lol. Actually, my dad was starting to blink in the last picture.

The fireworks weren't as good as last years's, or as long. It was still fun though, and it was a fun 4th of July! There was a lot of traffic too, it took forever to get home.

I forgot to add this part. When we were watching the fireworks, Matt was throwing ice cubes at Ben and I, and when he threw it at Ben he wasn't paying attention, but as soon as it hit Ben he grabbed it without looking before it went down his shirt, just tossed it over his head without looking with his left hand and it went right down Matt's shirt and he couldn't get it out. Matt was like, "how'd that happen? You weren't even trying to do that!"