Pioneer Day

So one of the downsides to being so far behind in my blogging is that I'm starting to forget details about the day.  I don't remember much about what we did on Pioneer Day, but I know we did fireworks.

Actually, one thing that I remember is that I let the boys watch the parade.  That's never been a tradition for me but I thought they might like to see it.  Turns out they really enjoyed it.  We hardly ever watch live tv so it was a little weird trying to find out where it was broadcast but we worked it out and they were able to watch quite a bit of it.  Maybe we'll have to do that again next year.

That night we did fireworks as usual.  I don't know why but it had never occurred to me to do light trails with the sparklers so that's what I focused on this time.  It's tricky to do, especially with wiggly kids but there are some fun shots.

 They were still a little new to the sparklers in general, we haven't done them much in the past.

 There were fireworks going off all over so I tried to catch some of them.

 They weren't sure exactly what it was I wanted them to do at first.

 So Jaaromy showed them that I wanted them to draw shapes in the air and stuff like that.

 They got better at it.

Just in time to run out.  But it was a fun trick, I'll have to try it again.

Unfortunately, we had an incident with the sparklers.  I wasn't watching and Brigham sat down in the chair with his sparkler and an ember broke off and landed on his knee.  He tried to get it off with his thumb and so both his thumb and his knee had a pretty bad burn on them.  I let him watch Baby Galileo all night while he held a cold pack on his knee.  Poor kid.  It's taken a while to heal too, the mark on his knee is still there.

Still it was fun.  We'll have to try again next year with new safety rules in place.