Happy Fourth of July... on the Fifth!

The Foley's celebrated 4th of July on the 5th this year along with a few friends and family. We ate brisket and ribs that Mike smoked, and hot dogs and burgers. Our guests brought sides and drinks to round out our food fest. The fireworks were fun and oh yeah, so was the water! The kids were in heaven with two slip and slides and of course the kiddy pool was full of water and little people.

Grandma Coldwell and Kali played together a lot at the party. Thank you so much mom!! Actually, Kali played with a lot of people. Without you fabulous people I would not have gotten anything done. What a fun party!!

Kali was so excited to have Uncle Ray lead her and Joseph to the water slide. She was squealing and jumping as they power walked to the water.

Kaelyn couldn't eat fast enough! She was one of the first kids on the slip and slide. Check out Joseph's happy silly face! He was having fun playing in the water.

He was happy until Uncle Ray put him down the slide. The hose water is very cold!!

Kaelyn joined Kali on the water slide. Kali was all about the water.

...more water...

... and more water! Kali LOVED the slip and slides as you can see here!

After the water Kali was nearly blue! Soooo, she got dressed and cuddled with Grandma Coldwell to watch the big kids shoot off little fireworks.

Nathan's friend Kyle was crazy about the parachutes. We had some good sized ones this year. As you can see they tied one of Nathan's Army guys to the chute... afterwards of course.

Nathan and Kimberly were allowed to light more stuff this year. Soooo, here Nathan is showing his baby sister how you light snakes!! Aunt Traci valiantly kicked the snakes off of the driveway before Mike could see the black mark!! :-)

We had lots of little kid friendly fireworks like the champagne poppers you see all over Kali here. She loved it when they made the pop sound and then ran to pick up the streamers. Aunt Traci made sure that Kali was well entertained!!

Here is a reminder of why you don't see many pictures of Kimberly and Nathan on this blog. I couldn't even get this kind of picture of Kimberly!!

Here is little man Landon. He loves his sparklers. Landon belongs to our friends Kiley and Ashley.