Happy 4th of July!!

We had a great weekend celebrating not only our Nation's birth but my neice's baptism also. Brian did the fireworks show in a town about 2.5 hours from here. The boys went with him on Thursday to help set up. Then I went over on Friday after the parade here in town. The kids played in the lake while I stayed on shore trying to not get sunburned!! The kids were slathered with spf 50 sunscreen and we didn't have too much redness over the weekend.
The fireworks were set up on a jetty and went off over the water. It was a *great* show!!!! The local fire department was supposed to burn off the weeds from the jetty but didn't so we got two shows for the price of one! Some of the brush caught fire from the low bursting fireworks. It burned up on of Brian's panels and some of the fireworks didn't actually go off like they were supposed to. It all looked great from where we were sitting on the shore!!
Jonah was quite the little business man before the show. I had bought glow sticks (the small kind you make bracelets or necklaces out of) at the dollar store several months ago. Jonah took them around and sold them to people. He made about $50!! He has the perfect personality for it!
We camped in the tent that night. Brian didn't stumble in until about 2AM after cleaning up all the fireworks stuff. We all slept pretty well.
Saturday we headed to my sister's house. Her oldest daughter was baptized that afternoon. She was beautiful!! We had an enjoyable time visiting at their new home. They've been in it for just a month and this was our first visit there. The cousins all had a great time playing together and I enjoyed chatting with my sister, brother, sister in law and others who were there. I liked being able to browse the 'library', too! My sister and brother-in-law have a great collection of books!!
We came home on Sunday and we all crashed into bed! It was a really great weekend!!!!
I think we've done enough traveling this summer already!! We might have one more trip to Montana to Brian's job up there but that will be it. I'm travelled out for right now!
Oh NO!!!!! I forgot I have a trip to Dallas at the end of the month!! Well, it's just me so I don't have to pack for everyone, just myself. That won't be so hard I guess.