Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Fireworks!!

Happy 4th of July!!  This is my favorite holiday!!!  Growing up we went to the lake and my dad and grandpa were the biggest kids of all.  I love watching fireworks and I love celebrating my freedom and my country.  GO USA!!
Mike and I had friends over on Sunday and we ate, drank, played horseshoes, some played beer pong, and lots of laughs and catching up with buddies.  Some also brought their doggies over, so Remi had some friends to play with.
I had to work on the 4th, only a half day, and went to see mom and dad.  We had dinner with them and started watching the New York fireworks, so we were planning on going to Riverparks to watch the Tulsa fireworks.  We ended up testing out Mike's new tailgate on his new ride and hung out in the driveway watching the great show our neighbors put on.  Here are some of the fireworks.









Yes, the cops come...they do every year, and our neighbor gets out of the ticket every time, because he is 'in the missile club' according to the neighbor boy. :) He works for the department of missile defense, so the cops always let him off.  So the show continued...





These were new this year to me...they were lanterns or mini hot air balloons.  So cool!

I LOVE THE USA!!

Kite Festival 2011

Okay, I am so so so far behind with pictures.  I only have a small small smidgen done from my Alaska Trip, but those are on the list to work on this weekend.  I'm also trying to get all my Project 365 pictures organized to post too....I finished the project the end of June!!  I can't believe it and I am so excited to get all of them posted and get my book made.
It's super steamy here in Oklahoma with no rain in sight!  I always worry about Mike working out in this heat.  It's been over 100 most days this week and there is no end to the madness according to the weather men.  It's times like now that I REALLY wish I was back in Alaska with the beautiful 60-70 degree highs for the entire summer! 
So, in celebration of the summer, here are some pictures I took at the Kite Festival.  Mom and I were out and about a few weekends back and I saw some huge kites.  So we followed the kites and found the Kite Festival 2011.  I didn't even know we had a Kite Festival, but it was so fun and we saw some very cool kites.  These people are wild about their kites too, I mean car loads and trunk loads full of kite and kite equipment.
They also had a children's place where they could make their own kites and fly them, that was fun to see what the young creative minds came up with.  Hope you enjoy the pictures and have great weekend.  For those of you in Oklahoma, stay cool!!














These little girls were so cute and loved playing with the tail on the kite.



Mom loved these Kite Men

Kite Festival 2011, I look forward to the one next year!