Happy Fourth of July!!

We celebrated by going to a fair at the military barracks. Ivy and Kezia were in line to go on a ride, but the attendant said Ivy was too short, so at the last minute I got pulled into the barf ride. But I figured if I was going to get sick anyway, let's go for it!! Needless to say, the rest of the fair I was holding my stomach.

The next "must have" was face painting...




...followed by a petting farm.
And what's a fair without a cheesy board photo? (May our skin never be so white)


Then we headed home because I had a lesson. It was one I don't think I'd soon forget. It was 3 siblings. One of them had brain cancer and was told by his doctor that it was progressing so quickly that he ought to go enjoy life. He's my age. It was a very emotional thing to take this man out on an activity and to a place that he would never do, and never see again.

We then had dinner at Kay's with our friend Mara and her daughter Nicole and set off fireworks.
The girls' reaction to the fireworks
May God continue to bless our nation