food and fireworks!

I really enjoy holidays, doesn't really matter what holiday it is...it just means that I get to eat yummy food, and have fun with friends!
On the 4th, the Johansens and Comptons came over and we started off with a bbq. Here is Rand- Rand the grilling man. (Bree, do you recognize that plate?!! I still have a few of them as my back up plates!)
This is the yummy dessert I made. I thought you all might like to see it because it is so darn cute! How patriotic am I???!!!

After eating and playing some games, we headed up to Rands work to set off some fireworks!

Here I am in a prego-sandwich! Yes, both of my friends are pregnant...haha. Check out my awesome $5 shirt from wal-mart. I thought it was awesome... even though I don't drink coke...

One good thing about being in the midwest is the fact that we can actually buy real fireworks! I mean ones worth looking at! We had lots of fun! Rand was too busy doing the fireworks to take any pictures, so I got to take over. Unfortunately I am not as good as him, so most of these are blurry! Hey, Extended exposure is not easy!!!This is Haven doing a great job with his sparkler circle.

This is Kimberly attempting a heart with her sparkler- once again sorry so blurry

OOOH

AAAAHHHH

I will actually claim these next two, pretty good I know!

This one makes me laugh, one of our lets say larger fireworks went off on the ground right in front of us... this is what I got from it! It was totally scary, but I was laughing really hard at this pic!

Finished!!

Last weekend we finally planted!!! It doesn't look like much right now, but it will....in probably a few years....but that is ok!
I decided that we had to start planting last friday night because it was supposed to rain on saturday (Rand thought I was crazy). So by the time we got to Lows and got home,(with only the bushes because it was so late) it was almost 10:00 pm! Can I tell you how great it is to plant at 10:30 at night! We have a street lamp on the corner of our lot, so our front yard has plenty of light. There was no sun and a light breeze, so the weather was perfect...it was awesome. Highly recommended. We could see the storm rolling in as we were planting and right as we finished, it started raining. It poured for a while and I was worried that we wouldn't be able to finish it the next morning.
We got up early and checked the dirt which looked very wet, but that wasn't going to stop me from finishing my project dang it! After another round at lowes and several hours of planting, we finished it. The dirst was actually fine- it was only wet on the top. I need to take better pictures, but of course it rained again last night so everything looks dirty- you will have to wait.
So for any green thumbs out there that are interested in what we actually planted (or want to look it up)... we have two kinds of bushed, a boxwood and a Euonymus (looks like a boxwood, but has white edges). We have a few Hosta Patriots( my favorite!) yellow stella de oro daylillies, and moonbeam coreopsis (a way cute little yellow daisy bush). We also have tihis pink flower bush that I have no idea what it is called, but I had to have it! Rand chose this wierd grassy thing that I don't care for called a gold bar miscanthus. It looks like striped spider legs and kind of wierds me out. I guess it will be cool once it gets bigger. And then of course we have a few annual flowers that will hopefully fill in until everything gets bigger.
I will post some better pictures once it is sunny again!