This was a new thing this year, but I’m hoping it becomes a tradition.  On our way through Indiana a couple of weeks ago, my dad, Julie, and I stopped at a fireworks store right on the Indiana border and bought a bunch of fireworks.  Also, Julie and I went and bought a bunch of additional ones for gifts up in Wittenberg.  Fireworks Country has perhaps the greatest website in the history of websites.   We launched most of them off on Christmas night before we got too cold and turned in.  My brother Luke and his fiance Cheyanne made it up from Madison at about 10, and my grandparents came over as well, so we had a pretty big crew to watch the festivities.
Video of “Gentleman Jack”:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/18288156

The spread of fireworks

Rockets!