Firework Fiasco

We celebrated Christmas with my mom and Mark on Tuesday!! It was lots of fun! We got to meet Mark's son, his wife and two cute daughters!! We ate...too much...visited and had some good laughs!! It was good catching up with my older sister and the kids had fun with their cousins!!  Once it was dark we all headed outside to watch Mark's annual firework display!!! They were bigger and better...and more dangerous...than ever!! One of the firework buckets tipped over as Mark was lighting it. One flew towards the shop another right toward our group and exploded right in front of Armin.  He jumped up and screamed and ran. Jared caught up to him and picked him up just as another one exploded right behind them.  All we could see in the dark was what looked like black ash all around his eye. Jared took him inside while I stayed to calm Calum down. He had run around the house and was headed back crying asking if Armin was okay!!  Going inside we checked on Armin and got him a cold cloth for his eye! After having that over his eye for awhile we looked at it again. Now the ash look was gone but the skin was bright pink and a little swollen. We could see where a spark may have hit the skin just under his eye. His eyelashes are singed and part of his eyebrow is gone too.  He is so lucky it didn't get any closer to his eyeball. It was totally a freak accident, we are just happy it wasn't worse. Our boys are totally freaked out of fireworks now...though Calum wasn't fond of them before anyway!!  

Other than the firework fiasco it was a really nice time!!! I love spending time with my mom and sisters!! I'm thankful for our friendship and for special holidays that bring us together!!!!