Sunday, July 6, 2008

The 4th


I hope that everyone had a great 4th! We grilled country style ribs and we also had baked beans, slaw, pasta salad and of course mac-n-cheese for the kids. We had home made peach ice cream for desert. Yum Yum! My friend Beckie came to share the day with us and of course our 6 plus Sparky and Terry. When Beckie got here Molly went crazy and ran to her. She brought us a BEAUTIFUL vase of flowers; red, white and blue of course, with a metal flag coming up from the center. She also had HUGE patriotic balloon. Attached was a sweet card. What a special friend and Nana for Molly. After we had dinner Aunt Carol came along with her daughter Tammy (Larry’s first cousin), Tammy’s husband Jasper and 2 daughters; Amanda and Autumn. Oh and Amanda’s boyfriend who I don’t think spoke a word. Anyway, they brought fireworks to add to what we had already bought. Oh and they brought the most yummy brownies! They also brought h/m ice cream. Mmmm, mmmmm, mmmm!
Next came the fireworks. Larry and Jasper did the setting up and lighting. We did the watching and picture taking. I was not in the field in the beginning but one of the first rockets that was set off went in the wrong direction and chased the others around. Later, the kids were all sitting in the back of a pick up truck. Me, Beckie, Sean and Zach (Seans friend, our neighbor) were much closer to the activities. Well…It was the next to the last one to be set…Laura and Autumn had walked over to where we were standing…1,000 fireworks went off from this HUGE pack…colors shooting up one after another…HOWEVER…a few of them went a little off track and headed for us! We screamed and ran knocking over lawn chairs! Beckie said I think I got hit. She and I went inside and yep…she had 2 burn marks on her upper arm. I doctored her up. Larry and I felt SO bad.
Everybody left sometime after midnight. We were pooped and dropped into bed.
We were up early the next morning. Good News…The trim in our house is done! A family friend, Jim, came Sat. morning to get started and came back Sun. to finish. He has a full time job and was doing this for us on the side so he had to get it done today. Yeahhh! One BIG project finished. We are getting clooosseerrrrrr! As he worked Larry and I moved furniture out of his way and then back to it’s normal place. We have also cleaned out the storage building behind our house and cleaned in our garage and built a couple shelved in there to tidy things up a bit. We did other stuff too…lots of small jobs.
I am saying this because of the next paragraph. I don’t give last names on my blog for privacy reasons. Also, when it comes to anything involving the military, I will never give dates of deployments, last names, ranks, etc. due to privacy/security reasons. I hope you all understand. When we pray, God knows the details and the exact ones we are praying for.
Prayer request for Tim and Connie; Tim left today for Ft. Riley for training before deploying a few months from now. Of course they are both having a hard time with the separation. Please pray for both of them to have strength through this deployment and for Tim’s safety once deployed.
Also, please pray for the safety of one of Larry’s best friends, Mike, who is in Iraq.
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