Happy 4th of July

Fourth of July is definitely my favorite holiday. Christmas is a very close second. But there's just something about Independence Day.......it just drives that patriotic feeling home. Makes you really think about how lucky we are to live here and why our country is what it is and what drives our country. Did you know that many of our founding fathers were Bible believing, God fearing people? Those are the standards and principles that our great country was founded upon. Good thing they are not alive today to see what a downslide is happening to our country. Gay marriage, for starters. Moving on, I just love the summer nights, fireworks, friends, family, and of course the food. What would the 4th be without a barbecue? Friday night we went to Bakersfield College to watch their annual fireworks show. It is the best I've ever seen! They shoot 'em off to patriotic music and it lasts anywhere from 20 to 25 minutes. The finale is unbelievable! And they always have some sort of pre-firework show. This time was a Christian band called Sanctus Real. I've heard them on the radio. They were really good. Ali and Spencer had a ball! Although, speaking of balls, Spencer was really bummed that one of the beach balls they were bouncing around the stands didn't come his way. Tanessa isn't with us this weekend. She's with her dad for 2 weeks. But she does get to go to the beach with us this week for a couple days so we're excited about that. On Saturday, July 5th we had our local fireworks over the lake. True the fireworks don't compare to, well, to many, many other fireworks but we did take the boat out so we were right under them. We have done this every year for the last three years and the kids just love it! Luckily, Dave managed to get the day off. With all these crazy fires, he has been working a ton of over time. He had worked 11 days before Saturday, had that one day off, and is working for another sixteen. Anyways, we all had a really good time out on the lake, which we deserved because we worked our behinds off around the house getting things done all day. My mom came with us and our good friends Brett and April and their three kids. We were so close to where they were shooting the fireworks, that we saw the guy running up the hill after he lit the grand finale. Then it was so bright, I think I was temporarily blinded for a split second and it was over. Seriously, you blink, you miss. Then we just floated around till 10:30. We always wait till everyone else is off the lake because the docks can get kinda brutal with everyone fighting to get there first. But oh well, fun was had by all! Happy 4th of July!!