As a warm-up for July 4th the next day, Paul and Care invited us to Tank Wars at their house. After dinner, Paul shared his fireworks and we doctored up some tanks so they had some real power. Here, the competitors assembled for the carnage…
They proudly displayed their arsenals.
Paige and I even prepared some Barbie Carnage Tanks.
It was dearly entertaining to watch the reactions of the kids…
This was Mark’s first experience with fireworks. He was mesmerized.
It was loud, but most of the kids watched from the edge of the curb, which is as close as we would let them sit.
Cutie Solomon was amazed.
Ruby and Paige were less impressed, but found some things to chat about.
Isaac confessed, “I like smoke!” as he chased it down the street.
Ammon was just happy to be there.
Charlotte blew patriotic bubbles since she was too young to make a tank.
Tank Wars Day 1 was a fiery success. Tank Wars Day 2 took place at the Round House with even more competitors with a larger army of tanks. Installing that hornet rocket on my Big Mama Tank was definitely against my better judgment a great idea!