Wild Fourth of July Weekend

I am finally back from my hiatus and ready to catch you up on everything we have been doing.  I'm starting with July 4th Weekend and then will go back and catch up.

July Fourth Weekend had plenty of excitement! From scalloping, to fireworks, to dog bites, to fires....we covered it all.

Saturday we loaded up in the boats and head over to Lanark to go scalloping.

Scuba Steve

Mom

The joys of cleaning them

Sunday we had Drew's family over for a Fourth of July Celebration.  John Andrew had bought a bunch of fireworks on their way back from visiting Hensley and Sawyer.

The Musselwhite Family + Cameron and Regan

Mac found a shell on the beach

The Firework's Team

Mary Carlton and Regan

Right before Drew's family arrived we had a little incident with Copper.  Ty and Kevin came down for the party and fireworks and Ty was hungry so we were making him a sandwich.  He went over to the Doolin's side to get some ham for his sandwich and while walking back Copper bit him on his calf.  Poor Ty had to go all the way back to Tally so that Dr. Stoetzel could bandage him up and luckily he didn't have to get any stitches.  Here is where Copper resided the rest of the weekend.

 And here is Ty with his leg bandaged up.

Once everyone had eaten all the wonderful food and desserts, the Smith/Davis/Wagnon clan came down to watch the fireworks.  Tripp and Heather were in town and I got to meet Aubrey for the first time.  This year we decided to shoot the fireworks off in the yard instead of on the beach so everyone could sit on the porch.  This seemed like a great idea at first......

We started off with all the little one doing sparklers.

Then we got ready for the big ones.....

The first few fireworks went off and everything was going smoothly.  Next thing you know, one turned over on its side and shot towards the swamp between us and our neighbors.  Once it finished two of the sparks caught the grass on fire and the whole swamp went up in blazes.  Everyone was running around like crazy....grabbing hoses, buckets, ice chest.  Several neighbors from along the beach came running over to help us put the fire out.  Within several minutes or so we had the fire put out.  Thank you everyone for pitching in and helping us.  Some of the kids were freak out but most of them thought it was cool.  I don't think Uncle D thought it was so cool and he is now ready to retire from lighting of the fireworks. 

After that fiasco we somehow decided to continue with our fireworks which only ended in another scare.  Another firework block tipped over and shot toward our other neighbor.  The firework went right under their house and exploded.  Luckily everything was okay and there was no damage.  At that point we decided that all fireworks will be let off at the beach so thats where we wrapped up our grand finale and it was exciting!

Thank you Uncle D and Drew for being our brave firework igniters!

Monday was pretty laid back.  Drew, Sarah and I went out to the spit to do a little tarpon fishing.  We didn't catch a tarpon but we had a great time.

Drew and Sarah w/ a Sheephead Fish

We had a wonderful weekend full of family, friends and sunshine!!  Looking forward to do it again soon!