Celebrating the 4th again… On Monday the 5th :)

Since today was a federal holiday and everyone had work off, Dan’s dad invited the family over for a little fourth of July celebration. Dad barbequed shish-ka-bobs for dinner and then we did a few fireworks of our own in the backyard.

We only had done a few “illegal fireworks”, most of them were the plain jane good old fashioned back yard family style fun kind. BUT…..Dad was constantly looking over his shoulder for the cops because he wasn’t sure if it was illegal to be setting them off on the 5th instead of the 4th.

So….Dan and I decided to have a little fun. A good friend of ours is a Richland Police officer, and happened to be working tonight. After calling him up and asking him to come over with lights flashing and crash our party, Dan told me to grab the camera. We sat in anticipation knowing what kind of a reaction this should get under the circumstances.

And it worked like a charm. A few minutes later two cop cars came screeching into the cul-de-sac, lights flashing and a huge spotlight pointed down into the backyard. A voice came over the loud speaker and says, “Step away from the fireworks”. Dan and I were trying to keep a straight face as the adults all argued about who was going to be the one to go up and talk to them. A few of the kids even thought that we were all going to jail.

After the police officers left, having harassed Dad for a few minute and then gotten a chuckle out of it with us, Dad reported that he needed to go inside for a moment and change his pants.

We love ya Dad. Totally worth it!!