I cannot believe it is already July! That means only about a month until school starts again. Andrea will be in the 8th grade & Makaila will be in the 3rd. Before we know it, Andrea will be driving & then dating. Ugh! So not ready for that one bit.
This July we have not had much excitement. Since we are so dry, we did not get a 4th of July show. Usually they have fireworks at the park & we sit in the parking lot of one of the churches close by. This year they did a laser light show & from what I understood, you had to actually be inside of the park to see it. Which stinks.
We have been experiencing 3 digit weather & with no rain, it has been pretty bad. We had a month of fires, which to me, seem to have tapered off. Hopefully people around here are using their noggins when grilling & smoking cigarettes outside.
The girls have been laying around watching movies, going to the park & swimming. We went camping at the end of June with my parents & it was quite fun! We got to spend time with my brothers & their families. JD has been keeping the kids during the day & umpiring in the evening & weekends. He had a few weeks off except for weekend tournaments & the season just started full-swing again.
I hope & pray everyone is having a safe & happy summer. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Feeling much better this weekend. Do not know if it is because we have been just laying around watching movies or just starting to feel better.
No big plans for the 4th this year. The park they set the fireworks off is just down the street, so we are hoping they will be high enough in the air to see from our parking lot or maybe the park next door.
We have a bit bigger park on the North side of town that the fireworks use to be at & you could park on the boulevard to see them. Now they moved them to a smaller park off a busy road & charge you to park inside. You would have to camp out all day to get a good spot & to get out is crazy.
The last few years we have gone out to one of our aunt's home & shot them off ourselves & cooked out, but they have moved. So here is hoping we can see them from our apartment. Our local news channel shows them on TV, but that is nothing like the real thing.
For everyone else who is venturing out to family, friends, lakes, the park, please be careful & responsible.
Thank you to the service men & women who have made great sacrifices for our country's freedom!
As a child summer was my favorite time of year.
We either went camping or to visit relatives we did not normally get to see. I remember piling into the back of my dad's Toyota pickup underneath the topper, until we got a silver Buick that we would stretch out in the back seat of & my little brother would lay in the back window, & that is how we traveled.
We camped out in a tent. Sometimes my older brother would sleep in a hammock. We swam, fished, cooked out, roasted marshmallows & hot dogs & just have the best time ever. I have always wanted to pass this tradition on to my own children. Share stories by the campfire, roast marshmallows, swim & fish. I love sleeping in a tent & my girls do not seem to mind it a bit.
My parents purchased a camper trailer last summer, so we have taken advantage of going out camping as often as we can. Last summer we went to Palo Duro Canyon & an RV Park not far from Turner Falls & an RV park in Oklahoma City right before school started. This summer we have already stayed in Palo Duro Canyon & this weekend we are venturing out to Fort Richardson in Jacsboro,TX for the 4th of July. I know we are going to have a blast!
I hope everyone has an awesome & safe 4th of July!
