The Fourth at Dale and Linda's

Yep, I'm still finishing up the pictures from the 4th of July, I'm only 4 months behind. Wow it seems like so much longer ago than that! Our good friends Dale and Linda (we miss you guys so much) invited us over to their new house for a barbecue. I'll have to captionize these pictures so we all know who is what and where.
This is Donny on the left and Dale on the right. Dale is a super actuary genius and I wanna be just like him when I grow up. We're so lucky to have such great friends, they made our time in Wisconsin hundreds of times better. We had a lot of fun at Dale and Linda's house, we're gonna miss those days of Wisconsin 4th of July barbecues.
Here's Dale's wife, Linda. We used to be coworkers back in the day. I'll never forget all the quality time I used to spend leaning up against Donny's desk at work, talking with him and Linda. Then Donny quit, then Linda quit and I was all alone. Except at the 4th of July party anyway. Dale and Linda had also invited a bunch of other friends of theirs with whom we got along very well. Zoe especially liked throwing snappy fireworks all around their deck. Why didn't any of these responsible adults stop her from this dangerous activity?
Perhaps nobody had time to stop Zoe because they were too busy lighting her on fire! This was the year of the sparklers, as Zoe went through enough of them to put her own little hole in the ozone layer. This may have been because we all enjoyed lighting a sparkler handing it to her, watching her run off in fear, come back, hold it and smile. Repeat. Celebrate the Independence of your country be blowing up a small piece of it.
Here's a picture of Zoe and Joey at the 4th of July parade. She loves that dog. Brookfiled throws a great parade down Calhoun road, this year we went with some our favorite families from the Ward. Man, I shouldn't be writing all this stuff, it really makes me miss our friends out in the mid-west. I just need to spend a few minutes remembering how much snow and -30 degree weather there was and I'll feel much better.