Fourth of July, 2019

Mike and Eric waiting for the parade in Kanarraville.

The flag is going by. Everyone is saluting and everyone was wearing red, white and blue and looked so nice!!

The parade was short and sweet, and the sweets were plentiful!

We attended the patriotic program following the parade at the Cobble Crest park and visited and played around after the program. And had lunch! They have a fundraiser for the fire department and we like to support that cause.

Lots of cousins having fun in the shade.

Eric and Braeden watching the program. Yes, that's Eric on the left. His hair is pretty. Pretty darn long!

Rachel and Jonathan

Eric and Gail

Mike

Damian making faces at Logan

Eric and Gail looking at pictures or figuring out rewards programs or something.

Nick really IS explaining rewards programs through credit cards to others so we can organize our trip to Orlando for next summer in June.  All of us. Disneyworld, here we come!

Lexi (16), Tandy (unknown, or 29), Ella (11)

Logan just swingin' around.

Cute Rachel

Tandy, Damian

Kaylee, Nick, Jane (2 months)

Braeden (14)

After Lunch, we took Jonathan for a drive. Mike and I drove out past the shores of Lake Quitchapa because it's really full and we wanted to see just HOW full and far down the valley it went. There's been lots of growth out there, but it's still barren and sparsely populated. The above address is where Mom and Dad Autrey used to live (Martin and Marilyn). There is a home there now, fewer trees, more outbuildings, and no further development of the property whatsoever.

Approaching Mom and Dad's old homstead. The Long Horn place no longer is actively producing cattle.  Just an old donkey lives in the corrals now.

The wheat grass was really REALLY tall and thick.

Gail's (antique) jar of buttons from Grandma L's house she wants to use for jewelry crafts.

At Pam's house after the parade, program and lunch, many family members when to go play and party at her house. These are some kind of inflatable toy called Run and Bump or something. The kids had a lot of fun. 

Ella.

Eric and Matt. Waiting for our yummy dinner of dutch oven potatoes and chicken. We had a LOT of yummy food that evening at Pam's house. Others of Tandy's aunts, uncles and cousins were there, too, from Utah and Nevada.

Gail, Eric, Matt awaiting the fireworks show.

Caroline, among others.

Fireworks, massive amounts of aerial ones, were launched from the Kanarraville church parking lot.

Roman candle launching.

I hoped that the men stepped back on occasion to see their handiwork lighting up the sky. Damian assured me that they did.  All spectators were covered in ashes and soot from falling stuff.  Also occasional bops on the head or (in my case) shoulder or leg of falling rocket casings.  

Damian, Braeden, Clint, Cody and Juan were the main pyrotechnicians this year. I helped before it got dark by exposing some of the fuses and organizing stacks of boxes of explosives.

It was a really BIG show. Beautiful!  We didn't get home and into bed until close to midnight.

Everyone was safe and healthy at the end, thankfully.