Light the night... a celebration

Our boxes were packed, the walls were bare and I was second guessing our decision (a very familiar feeling at that point).

We colored and hung signs on the bare walls, the kids decorated the table and I prepared a very fancy meal of hotdogs, fruit salad, Capri Suns, and Doritos. 

Several months prior, I bought sky lanterns for our special neighbor trip to Black Water Falls... but as it turned out, densely forested state parks are not the best place to release fire balls into the sky. Everyone was very disappointed.

So we made up a special occasion and called it our "light the night party". After our gourmet meal everyone got their pajamas on and we drove to our neighborhood park.

We tossed the frisbee until it got dark, lit the lanterns and smiled as they floated away. It was special.

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