Fireworks Celebration and much more

Yesterday evening was our county's "Fireworks Celebration" for the 4th of July. All of our neighbors were going and having a picnic dinner, everyone was very excited about the picnic, fireworks, moon bounces, pony rides and everything else that the evening had in store for our family. We arrived, found our friends, then headed out for some fun. The kids went down a big blow up slide a few times, played a few other games, then Jacob and Emma went over and rode the ponies. After all the fun we headed back to where our friends were to eat dinner. That was delayed when we lost Emma. She had wondered off, which we later found out, she was in line for a moon bounce. But in the 10 minutes, which seemed like 10 hours to me, when we were looking for her we had no idea that she was only about 30 feet from us. I headed toward the exit because no one was walking out of there with my little girl. The police were all on their radios giving out her description so they could look for her. I am sure that there were at least 100 other little blonde hair girls with red, white and blue shirts on. Luckily someone, and I am not sure who, found her and we were able to get back to eating dinner. We had all just sat down to eat when a couple policeman came over and informed us that we did not have to leave but there was hail, rain and heavy winds headed our way and to use our best judgement. Well, the rain and the wind started which immediately triggered MAJOR fear in Jacob and he was crying. We decided to leave since he was so upset instead of try to wait it out under one very small shelter. I am not sure I have ever seen Jacob run as fast as he did to the car. We made it home safely and so did all of our neighbors who waited under the shelter for a little while and decided it was not letting up anytime soon. We then all got back together at one of the neighbors homes, to finish the dinner that no one was able to eat at the park. Sean headed off to work as the kids and I walked down the street. We stayed until about 10pm and decided to head home. As we arrived home I realized that I did not have a house key, the reason for not having a key is a whole other story, so I called Sean. He was all alone at work because the other people he works with had all asked for the day off. Luckily one of the people that works the swing shift lives only 10 minutes from us, since Sean could not leave, he gave the other guy a key to bring to us. So, for an hour we sat on the couch at our neighbors home while we waited for a key to our house. It was 11:30pm before we were able to get in our house and into our beds. I was definitely ready for the evening of celebration to be over.