Fireworks in Philomath

carefully lining them up with two-year-old OCD precision
our little pyre is growing
woo hoo, we have liftoff!

We got a bunch of snakes to light off at my parents house when Brian was visiting. They were a total bugger to light. My dad and I had to build very tiny funeral-pyre-esque contraptions to get them to burn. We were laughing hysterically at our own ineptitude, but Maddy was very patient waiting and waiting and waiting for the much anticipated snakes. Luckily she totally loved it once we got them going - worth the wait (and a whole big box of matches sacrificed for a good cause).