28 and starting out GREAT!

Yesterday was my 28th birthday. Woah! Where did the time go? I guess I'm not a kid anymore. I'm considered in my late 20's. What a year this has been, is, and will be. My 10 year high school reunion is coming up AND I'm having a baby! My family reunion is this week and we find out if this baby is a boy or girl in a few more days. I can't wait! Will totally be posting again soon so stay tuned!

Since John has been so busy with school this summer, we haven't had much time for fun. I desperately needed some fun! In the summer we like to host what we call 'sundeas on sunday' a few times each summer. It's basically an ice cream party. We get a tub or two of vanilla ice cream as well as bowls and spoons then we invite people and have them bring the toppings. We try to have 10-15 people and we usually get a nice variety of toppings. It's a lot of fun. Well we hadn't done it yet this summer and because my birthday happened to fall on Sunday, I told John that's all I wanted for my birthday! BUT this time we invite everyone we can! (he did get me a present too, a body pillow to sleep with because sleeping is getting more difficult...)

It was a BLAST! I got to see so many of my friends and a few that I hadn't seen in years. It was so fun and the time flew by much too fast. Sadly my parents were supposed to be there but they got car trouble on the way up and didn't make it in until today. BUT I still had a really fun time! I didn't get many pictures but here's a few,
Cade & Jessica

Juan & Rachel, Jake & Cody
Amber and Chrissy
Dave & Amber
Traci & Mark
Me and Brittany

Sarah & Mike

Ben, Jason & Angie and Kyle

Emily Leah Beau Bobby

Me and Emily

I LOVE MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Independance Day

I have ALWAYS loved the 4th of July. Being patriotic just comes naturally. I love celebrating a holiday that everyone else in the country celebrates with you! And talk about fireworks, how amazing and fun are fireworks? I could do or watch fireworks every month, maybe even every week and never get sick of them. I'm sure my husband gets annoyed with me every time there is an opportunity to see them because I MUST be present! I even get stressed when I think I am going to miss viewing them or even stress out that my location to view them isn't the most perfect spot to view them from. See, I am obsessed! Not just with the fireworks, with the whole holiday. I could literally go on and on about how I love this nation and how grateful I am to those who lived and died for it and those who continue to build and repair it, but I won't take more time then just that.

So this 4th we spent most of the day with the Lewis family. John's father went through quite an ordeal this time last year but he came through and is alive and just as well. We are so grateful that he's alive and here another year! What an even greater excuse to get together and celebrate! We always have a lot of food at any of John's family gatherings, so eat we did! Once it got dark enough we did just a few fireworks with the remaining kids, it was great fun. I'm convinced any holiday is better around children. They make everything so exciting. They kept saying, 'this is the best day ever', priceless! I can't wait to have my own little hyper-active freaking out party animal child!

Here's just a few captured moments,