Fireworks

What July 4th celebration would be complete without fireworks? The great thing about being on a lake is you can float in the middle of it and watch fireworks on all sides. Of course, we also set off some of our own!

Uncle Mark's stash of fireworks

Mom found a ground display firework that looked like a beer mug. She bought it, and Niki and Corey built a "beer man" to hold it while it went off. Notice the volleyball head. 

The guys decided it would be more fun if the beer man burned and ignited the firework. Corey offered up the easy way to get the wooden man to start flaming.

Corey and Patrick show their approval while Ed continues to squirt lighter fluid as the man burns. Yes, the firework is duct taped to the man's arm, and yes, they're all standing too close to something that's about to explode! 
When the fire reaches beer man's volleyball head, it ignites the ball, which promptly falls off, rolls into the lake, and starts to float away. The firework did go off and spout some lovely fountains of fire, but as you can tell from the pictures, that was secondary to the fun of burning a wooden man with a volleyball head!