This year, since the normal place we go for fireworks had cancelled their show, we decided to just stay in. Not really wanting to be out in the heat, especially since it looked like most shows would be cancelled on the count of the weather,
and getting stuck in traffic, and not really knowing where else to go anyway. I was worried about how the kids would handle not going, but as soon as we mentioned that we would play "Bears in the the night" the fireworks were forgotten. If you haven't played this game I highly recommend it. It's a twist on hide and go seek. The twist being that you do it in total darkness. You hand out cards and one card has a bear on it, that person is it, only they don't tell anyone they are the bear. We turn off all the lights and everyone hides, even the bear. You can find a lot more hiding places in the dark. After the bear hides and counts to 100, then they come out roaring and looking for everyone else. When they find someone, that person also becomes a bear and now there are two. The game continues until everyone is found. Sometimes it takes quite a while to fine everyone cause in a dark house you can just stand in the corner of a room and people walk right by you. We also played some bear hunting music, came with the game. It's a little creepy sometimes, but if my little nieces can play and have a blast in a dark house, I think anyone could.
Kirk then pulls out the glow sticks and everyone goes crazy putting together bracelets and necklaces. We start taking pictures and start fiddling with the settings until we came up with the perfect one that would capture the light of the sticks. We had so much fun seeing how the pictures would come out. And as you can see the result looked a lot like fireworks themselves. Ty was the camera man and every two seconds someone was begging him to take their picture cause they thought of something even better to do with the neon than the last person.
Landen getting his Star Rank. I'm not quite sure what that means, but I think he only has Life to do and then he can work on his Eagle project. So far there hasn't been a Tenney who has earned his Eagle. So it's a race with Eric's son Aaron who is 16 Kevin's son Ammon who is 14 and Landen who is 12. They all are very close. 
These are the cookie flowers I made for a girl I work for who is getting married tomorrow. We had her bridal shower at my house on the 2nd of August. Congrats Aimee. 
