Happy Independence Day!

I hope everyone has had a safe and fun 4th of July. I also hope it was full of family and friends and fireworks and laughter. We had a busy day here. We spent the morning and the better part of the early afternoon making a place for and putting up our little pool we got for a great price from a really nice and great lady off of Craigslist. This was the first time I ever bought anything from anyone from off of there so I was of course apprehensive about the whole thing. But, it seems we really lucked out and got something really great for a reasonable price. I think making a spot for it in our ever so slightly sloped backyard kicked DH's ass today though. Of course he had his "little helper" "helping" him some of the time. He is really great for fetching things for us. More water, Gatorade for DH, my gardening gloves so I could rake and not get blisters on my hands, things like that. We then got showered to knock the BIG dirt clods off ;-) and cooked out steaks for supper. YUM! Tried to head out to our usual 4th of July firework-watching spot, but, a BIG storm had just rolled through and even though we didn't get hit really bad with at OUR house, apparently the County Fairgrounds did and the fireworks there were cancelled (we're calling tomorrow to see if they will do it tomorrow instead, I mean, after all, what are they going to do with all those fireworks they have???). So we were scrambling to decide where else we could go. Ended up heading out to the Carillon where they shoot fireworks off at Dogwood Dell. We waited for about 2.5 hours for the 'works to start (and by around 9:30, 10 o'clock the littlest man was getting VERY restless) and they were pretty, but I wasn't impressed. I'll end with a few pics from today.