4th of July

Most of you already know that we spend our 4th selling fireworks. It starts 9 days before the 4th and in some ways continues until several days after while we finish the inventory and paperwork. We always joke that we celebrate the 4th of July more than most people!

This year was a little different because TNT gave us an extra location. Plus, Michelle and Thomas weren't able to help us like they have in years past. There was a little while that we were pretty nervous about how we were going to run all three locations! Luckily, Dave's sister Andrea and her family stepped up and helped us pull it off. It was a tough year with the dryness and all of the fires. Fireworks sales were down all over the country. We feel blessed that we got the third location so we didn't end up losing money. The third location was just a one year experiment for TNT and we probably won't have it again next year.

With all of the business of selling fireworks, we try to make sure our kids still have time to celebrate. I always take them to the parade that Rexburg has. Afterward, Grandmas was so generous and took them to play with cousins for the rest of the day.

Logan is a huge fan of pop-it's. Every time I took him to visit his dad at the fireworks tent, all he could think about was pop-it's. I think he probably went through a good 20 boxes.