4th of July

I'm a little late on posting this. We went to my Mom & Dad's house for the 4th of July. It was a wonderful 85 degrees there the whole weekend. A girl could get used to that. Especially when back home it was over a 100 degrees! Here's the kids in front of the house:
Kory showing of his 'BBQ skills'.

The fam gathering around to throw those little popper things on the ground.

Soph doing what she does best, striking a pose:

More throwing poppers on the ground. Whew! Do we know how to party or what?

Cousins at the baseball field, waiting for the fireworks to start:

More cousin pics:

The Fam:

Earlier that morning some of us adults were getting ready to go explore some local caverns.

As we were walking out to the car we noticed this, only a foot or so from where we were walking,

and only about 10 feet from where our children had been playing earlier that morning:

It was a rattle snake. Although we hated to kill it, we couldn't just leave it there where the kids were playing. The snake was about 4 1/2 feet long. Here's the rattle, gross huh? Anyway, we were so lucky to have found it before one of the 8 kids did.

We drive through Wikieup on almost every trip out of town, always stop at this gas station, and never get a picture. So, since I actually had my camera handy this time we got a pic: