4th of July

Still in July...  The 4th welcomed even more family to Idaho!  Uncle Lampe and Aunt Loni!  It was fun to have everyone up here together and to house them all under the same roof (fairly comfortably) to boot.  :)  That's what 6 bedrooms will get you, I guess. Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Anyway, we tried out the new Traeger grill with two full chickens and hot dogs with all the fixings.  Everything was excellent!  

There was a water gun fight, mostly between Owen and Grandpa, while the food was cooking.  It ended when Grandpa dumped the bowl of refill water on Owen and he cried. Then there was some revenge and squirting was relegated to inanimate objects only.  :)

I thought this was sweet of her trying to console him after he got drenched.  :)

But there was lots of other water fun...

And Beerman!  (Don't ask for the explanation on this.  It's too long.  Suffice it to say that Owen just likes to pretend to be the "beerman" - a beer delivery guy with an interesting inventory of limited and unusual selections like 'strawberry lemonade beer' and 'daddy's beer'.  And the price he charges varies widely from 1 to 40.)  It's pretty funny.

Then the younger generation headed to the park just before dark to catch the famous fireworks show that claims to be the biggest west of the Mississippi. Maybe they were hyped up too much, or it had been a while since I'd seen fireworks, or the hour delay dampened the holiday spirit (someone fell in the river near the launch site), or we were too far away... I thought they were just okay.  But someone enjoyed staying up way past his bedtime!