Independence Day

Man, I hope I spelled that right. That's one of those words that just has too many e's in it to be right. Oh well... Forgive the imperfections please.

Good day today. Church was filled with the choir and congregation singing all of my favs - the National Anthem, America the Beautiful, My Country Tis of Thee... Now if only we could have busted out in Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA, it would have been sweet perfection. I'm a softy patriot and I usually tear up during any of those individually, so collectively they are a danger to my eyeliner, but I managed to keep it together throughout the whole service.

We followed church with Chuy's, where I made the mistake of having a margarita. With this heat and two shrimp tacos, I was immediately sent into a food coma. At home, I got both kids down for a nap asap and then crashed for about an hour until Annie told me it was time to get up. I could have probably slept till 5pm. But alas, we had guests coming!

The Guyre's, Hayden's, and Farmer's came bearing various accutriments including but not limited to beer, fruit, sliders, brownies, blackberry cobbler, rice krispie treats in star shapes and red, white, and blue, and oh yea... Beer. The Thompson's provided the hot dogs, chips, homemade guacamole, cream cheese dip, and some creamy jalapeño from Chuy's. Let's just say that no one... Not even Jason Guyre...went hungry.

The esplanade was filled with kids and parents running around. There was a pie baking contest - congrats Carrie Farmer for her #2 prize winning blueberry pie - a bike parade for the kiddos with decorations, and several bouncing deals to torture your small children. At least they had them segregated by age, though maybe weight is a better way to divvy up the kids in those things. I know some hefty 5 year olds that can take my 25%er down for the count.

Then we all trekked down to Stude park where the kids and dads enjoyed the city's fireworks display and the moms worried that we would be short a kid when it was time to go. Post trek bak home, each kid proceeded to eat MORE... I'm certain at least one will be puking before the night is over. Ours are down for the count...Annie was asleep before her head hit the pillow, but I'm sure Will will make his nightly appearance around 2am into our bed.
Happy Independence Day folks! God bless the USA!